Mathias Depardon

Biography

Mathias Depardon’s photographs have been exhibited at such institutions as the BNF, Le Musée Carnavalet, and the Musée des Archives Nationale in Paris. His work has appeared in National Geographic, Le Monde, and the Sunday Times Magazine, among others. 

Mathias Depardon by Benjamin Girette

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PHOTOGRAPHY / Spring 2024

The Money Islands

Photography by Mathias Depardon ,  Essay by Emmanuel Iduma

In photojournalism, there are two kinds of pictures. One delivers the news with shocking precision: The image of a drowned Syrian child washed up on a beach in Turkey; the spectacular, eerie stillness of a protester about to be arrested in...

Sand miners freediving to collect sand in Meemu Atoll, near the island of Mulah. A dozen people can fill approximately two hundred bags—or one ton of sand—per day. Photo by Mathias Depardon.
REPORTING / Fall 2016

Boomtown on the Caspian

By Gideon Lewis-Kraus ,  Photography by Mathias Depardon

The nation of Azerbaijan, wedged into the Caucasus Mountains between Russia and Iran, is small, geopolitically vulnerable, and relatively new to the contrivance of nationhood. Most of its history has been spent on the fringes of someone...