“I guess I’m a fairly simple photographer. There is very little hocus-pocus about what I do”

The exhibition is running online and at the Magnum Gallery in Paris until 2 April 2021

While Gruyaert became fascinated by the power of colour when he first moved to Paris in the 1960s, and subsequently on his first trip to New York in 1968 where he saw the works of Pop artists Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg, his revelation that colour photography was his preferred medium came from his very first trip to Morocco in 1969. Reminiscent of artists Eugène Delacroix and Henri Matisse, this revelation had a long-lasting impact on Gruyaert’s oeuvre which he decided to entirely dedicate to colour photography.

Sabiha Çimen is a self-taught photographer, focusing on women, Islamic culture, portraiture and still life. Working with nostalgia in her images, and drawing on psychological connections with the subjects of her photos to create her visual “autobiography”, Çimen documents a rarely-seen world exploring the dreams and adventures of young Muslim women in Turkey. Çimen joined Magnum as a Nominee in 2020.

Bruce Gilden is one of the most iconic street photographers of our time. Known for his graphic and often confrontational close-ups made using flash, his images have a degree of intimacy and directness that have become a signature in his work. Though he cut his teeth on the sidewalks of New York City where he grew up, he has since made significant bodies of work in Haiti, Japan, Moscow, France, Ireland and India. “I’m known for taking pictures very close,” says Gilden of his practice. “And the older I get, the closer I get.”

Raymond Depardon, born in France in 1942, began taking photographs on his family farm in Garet at the age of 12. He joined the Dalmas agency in Paris in 1960 as a reporter, and in 1966 he co-founded the Gamma agency, reporting from all over the world. From 1974 to 1977, as a photographer and filmmaker, he covered the kidnap of a French ethnologist, François Claustre, in northern Chad. Alongside his photographic career, he began to make documentary films: 1974, Une Partie de Campagne and San Clemente. He has since made eighteen feature-length films and published forty-seven books. Depardon joined Magnum in 1978. He is based in Paris.

Mark Power’s long-term photographic survey of America grapples with the complexities of its culture and politics. This selection from Good Morning America provides a visual narrative of a country in the midst of change.