Gilles Caron: Through the Eyes of a Photojournalist

In his documentary Histoire d’un Regard: À la recherche de Gilles Garon, the filmmaker Mariana Otero delves into the the French photographer’s archives. Although her quest is sometimes disjointed, she must be commended for digging out some forgotten gems by a reporter who died suddenly in Cambodia in 1970, at the age of thirty.

© Fondation Gilles Caron / Clermes 
A grey box takes up the passenger seat in Mariana Otero’s car: it is Gilles Caron’s “black box,” a hard drive containing 100,000 pictures, entrusted to her by the photographer’s family. In Histoire d’un R...

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