At the People’s Pavilion, in Montpellier (Hérault), Raymond Depardon exhibits what he loves above all: rural France. In Communesto discover for free until April 24, the famous photographer reveals a series of photos, taken in the summer of 2020, after the first confinement, in Occitan villages.
All these towns of Gard, Hérault, Lozère or Aveyron have one thing in common: they were all, for a time, threatened by a project to set up shale gas exploitation permits, before its abandoned in 2011.
The exhibition presents photos of buildings, whose signs have not moved for decades, in desperately empty streets. But the People’s Pavilion also offers to discover those that Raymond Depardon probably had the most, in his objective: people. Many of whom wondered, in front of the technique of the photographer: a “room”, an old camera that he particularly cherishes.