Luc Delahaye. The Echo of the World

The exhibition at Photo Elysée, organized in collaboration with the Jeu de Paume in Paris, showcases a quarter century of work by French photographer Luc Delahaye, with pieces created between 2001 and 2025.

Through his mostly large-scale color works – documenting conflicts in Haiti, Iraq, Libya and Ukraine, as well as OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) conferences and COP (Conference of the Parties) – Delahaye examines the turbulent world we inhabit, and the forums that are supposed to bring order to chaos, from a position of critical distance.

Whether captured in a single shot or assembled from fragments on a computer over several months, Delahaye’s photographs always bring us face to face with reality, experienced either immediately or after the fact. He seeks to articulate this reality from a purely documentary stance, without demonstration.

Alongside Delahaye’s photographic output from the past 25 years, the exhibition also features What’s Going On (2025), a vast installation that charts the dislocations of the modern world, offering a reflection on the meaning of history, violence, beauty and the viewer’s eye.