Discussion Post: Raymond Depardon

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This article discusses photographer and director Raymond Depardon's career. This article focuses on his photography career. He states that photography is a movement. He used his photography to shed light on many social and political problems, with a focus on modernity and post-colonial France. In this article, they quote him saying "Cinema is speech, photography is a movement." Délits Flagrants is a very obviously political movie. While there is not indicated during the movie of Depardon's political stance, this quote makes it clear that it was not essential to him. His real political action was in his photography.