PERESS, Gilles

About the French photographer Gilles PERESS (*1946 in Neuilly-sur-Seine)

Gilles PERESS is an internationally active French documentary photographer and photojournalist and a member of the Magnum photo agency since 1974. From 1966 to 1968 the Institut d'Etudes Politiques and studied political science and philosophy. Since 1970 he has devoted himself to photography. In 1974, he moved to New York and began a series of interconnected projects that explore the formal and conceptual possibilities of photography to interrogate the structure of history and the nature of intolerance. The resulting cycle of interlocking narratives in books and on walls includes eight monographs and has been widely exhibited Gilles PERESS lives and works in New York.

Photo books by Gilles PERESS

'Telex. Iran' (1984); 'Farewell to Bosnia' (1993); 'The Silence' (1994); 'Power In the Blood: Photographs of the North of Ireland' (1997); 'Die Gräber / The Graves / Les Tombes' (1998); 'Annals of the North' (2021); 'Whatever you say. Say nothing' (2021)