En Afrique is a soul-searching photographic journey across the African continent, captured by Raymond Depardon during the filming of his documentary “Afriques: Comment ça va avec la douleur?”. Depardon, who had been visiting Africa for over thirty years, returned for this extended trek to capture the continent as he truly saw it—at times suffering, but always close and warm. The book features high-contrast black-and-white imagery that avoids exotic clichés, focusing instead on the quiet, everyday resilience of people in countries like South Africa, Rwanda, Ethiopia, and Chad. It serves as a personal logbook that questions the role of the photographer in the face of human pain and the vastness of the African landscape.
