In 1980 the Sunday Times Magazine asked <a href='http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAGO31_10_VForm&ERID=24KL535T16' target='_blank'>Raymond Depardon</a> to go to Glasgow. To a photographer of the south and the desert, Glasgow seemed to be at the antipodes of his photography. And yet he discovered the northern light, and remembered it later when he photographed the north of France. In Glasgow he functioned like an anthropologist: how could he avoid the trap of exoticism? What distance should he take? In large cities, Raymond Depardon feels like an inner exile, as a young man he found it hard to find his foothold in Paris. The reportage has never been published, and these photos taken in Glasgow appear now for the first time in a book.

Introduction by William Boyd.

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 112
Bilingual (English/French)
Publisher: Editions du Seuil/Abrams, March 2016.

On March 8th, Raymond will be signing copies of the book at the Magnum Paris office. <a href='http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAGO31_4&VBID=2K1HZOQHZZQFBE&IID=2K1HRGPGJF_M' target='_blank'>Click here</a> for details.

Images from this project will be part of the coming Barbican exhibition <a href='http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=17922' target='_blank'>"Strange and Familiar: Britain as Revealed by International Photographers"</a>, curated by Martin Parr, opening on March 16th.

<a href='http://www.magnumphotos.com/Package/2K1HRG6U3INW' target='_blank'>Click here</a> to access the images for licensing request and lightbox editing.