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Together, Alone: Jean Gaumy Discusses Solidarity and Solitude as he Joins the Académie des Beaux Arts

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Jean Gaumy BB Polar expedition. Glasshouse built by the pioneers of the scientific research station. Greenland. 2016. © Jean Gaumy | Magnum Photos
Jean Gaumy Surgery ward. Operating theater: patient being moved back to his room. Hospital. Seine-Maritime. France. 1975. © Jean Gaumy | Magnum Photos
Jean Gaumy Mourners around the coffin of Fazollah Mahalliti, and the other 12 victims of a recent plane crash. The plane was shot down by Iraqi aircraft during the war between the two countries. City of Qum. (...)
Jean Gaumy The tuna fish are caught with fishing rods made of fibre or bamboo rods over 5 to 6 meters long, and rapidly unhooked by an assistant.The water sprayed on the surface of the sea is to imitate the m (...)
Jean Gaumy Tuna fishing with the "madrague", a vast net with various chambers, used to catch tunas on their way from the Atlantic Ocean into the warmer Mediterranean. Once the shoal of fish has been sighted, (...)
Jean Gaumy Celebration of the Day of the Dead, merging indigenous customs with Catholicism. SALVADOR. Panchimalco, located 17 km to the south of San Salvador. November 1st, 1985. © Jean Gaumy | Magnum Photos
Jean Gaumy IRAN. Tehran. 1986. Veiled women practice shooting on the outskirts of the city. © Jean Gaumy | Magnum Photos
Jean Gaumy Walking courts. Prison. Caen. France. 1976. © Jean Gaumy | Magnum Photos
Jean Gaumy On board the Spanish trawler "Rowanlea". North Atlantic. 1998. © Jean Gaumy | Magnum Photos
Jean Gaumy Surgery ward. Operating theater. Surgeon and assistant. © Jean Gaumy | Magnum Photos
Jean Gaumy From the watch-tower: surveilling the transfer of prisoners from the workshops area to the cells. Surveillance à partir du mirador du transfert des détenus depuis le quartier des ateliers jusqu'a (...)
Jean Gaumy Between Le Havre & Octeville. Seine-Maritime. Haute-Normandie. France. 1995. © Jean Gaumy | Magnum Photos
Jean Gaumy Psychiatric asylum. Authorities claim that 12 million Salvadorians are now suffering from psychological troubles resulting from stress suffered during the war. Town of Soyapango. El Salvador. 1985. © Jean Gaumy | Magnum Photos
Jean Gaumy Seagulls flying past the French trawler "Koros". Ireland. 1984. © Jean Gaumy | Magnum Photos
Jean Gaumy Haute Normandie. Seine Maritime department. Etretat beach. Snow storm. Between Le Havre and Paris. France. 1981  © Jean Gaumy | Magnum Photos
Jean Gaumy Geriatrics ward. Common room. Hospital. Seine-Maritime. France. 1975. © Jean Gaumy | Magnum Photos
Jean Gaumy Waves in Le Havre. Seine-Maritime department. France. 1984 © Jean Gaumy | Magnum Photos
Jean Gaumy Tehran.

Southern district of the city. © Jean Gaumy | Magnum Photos
Jean Gaumy Mesa Grande refugee camp. When the Salvadoran civil war started (1980), a campaign of massive military operations began to drive out the civilian population living in dangerous rural areas, control (...)