The Declic Years (Les années déclic)This meditative autobiographical essay is assembled from personal archives, commissioned photographs and film excerpts.
Depardon's charmingly self-effacing narration guides us from his gauche pastoral beginnings to his novel trajectory through international photo-journalism.
Revisited are key periods from his industrious 20-year career: the rise of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, the Algerian War, May '68, an odyssey across Chad's desert in search of the ethnographer Françoise Claustre, and the birth of the newspaper Le Matin de Paris, to name a few.
