The exhibition is entitled May 1968 in France and it shows 38 photographs taken by the famous photographer Bruno Barbey in the course of demonstrations, strikes and riots that took place in May 1968 mostly in Paris. At that time, Barbey was twenty-seven years old. He took photographs of many places, mainly in La Sorbonne, the Odeon Theater, strikes in the Renault factory or in the Latin Quarter.
Barbey’s photographs depict both passion and utopian ideas of the youth in one of the richest countries in Europe. In spite of that, the author managed to keep his distance. Since that time, as the member of the Magnum Agency, Barbey travelled the five continents and took pictures of numerous war conflicts. His home agency Magnum co-operated with the French Institute on the exhibition. Some of the photographs were published in newspapers and magazines forty years ago but roughly half of them were not discovered until recently and retouched for the first time for the upcoming exhibition.
