- Signed - 

"Insouciances"


With Text by Rachel Deghati 



[SIGNED] Chaumont en Champagne: Castor & Pollux, 2004. Oversize hardcover in photo-pictorial boards. First edition / first printing. ISBN-13: 978-2912756992; ISBN-10: 2912756995. Measures about 15-1/2 x 13-1/4 inches; 52 pages illustrated with 45 photographic plates in color. Text in French.

Signed and inscribed with silver sharpie by Reza Deghati on front paste-down.

Very good overall condition with minor shelf-wear; no owner marking, NOT EX-LIBRARY.


Reza Deghati (born July 26, 1952)  is an Iranian-French photojournalist who works under the name Reza (Persian: رضا‎). Reza was born in Tabriz, Iran. He is from Azerbaijani origin.

He has worked internationally for National Geographic Magazine. Several films about Reza's work have been produced by National Geographic Television, most notably Frontline Diaries which won an Emmy Award in 2002. In 2003, Reza served as Creative Director for National Geographic's most viewed documentary, Inside Mecca. As part of its Exceptional Journeys series, National Geographic released a documentary looking at Reza's career as a photojournalist, with special features highlighting his extensive humanitarian work.

Reza's photographs have been exhibited in major cities throughout the world. From monumental installations in the public space to more modest local exhibitions, Reza strives to make photography accessible to all. In 1998, he installed for the first time in public space, at the Carrousel du Louvre, an exhibition Mémoires d'exil. This is the beginning of a long series of original installations outside museums, giving everyone the opportunity to meet visual art and information. Thus, to cite only these, Destins Croisés, on the grids of the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris in 2003, One World, One Tribe, first exhibition of the National Geographic Museum in Washington DC in 2006, War + Peace, exposed in 2009 at the Caen Memorial in Normandy and in 2011 on the banks of the Garonne in Toulouse. There are nearly 450 photographic exhibitions in France and abroad, including major installations on the Corniche in Doha (Qatar), in the major cities of Corsica, at Kew Gardens in London, at the UN headquarters in New York, Parliament in Brussels, as well as UNESCO, the Petit Palais museum and the banks of the Seine in Paris. 

In 2013, Reza has designed, the first 370-meter giant mural along the banks of the Seine facing the Musée d'Orsay, dedicated to Coffee Workers around the world. In 2015, he reiterated the same major installation entitled Dream of Humanity. It presents his photographic work on refugees around the world as well as the photographs taken by young Syrian refugees in a camp in Iraqi Kurdistan who have followed since the end of 2013 the photography training of her association Reza Workshops. In 2018, he exhibits his work Face to Face in China.

Crossing Destinies (2003) in Paris on the fences of the Jardin du Luxembourg.
One World, One Tribe (2006) photographic exhibition at the National Geographic Museum in Washington, D.C.
HOPE (2012) a photographic exhibition at the Sheraton Park on the Corniche in Doha.
A Dream of humanity (2015) along the banks of the Seine in Paris opposite the Orsay museum (photos by Reza over the past 30 years, portraits of refugees by photographer Ali Bin Thalith and photographs taken by Syrian refugee children living in Kawergosk refugee camp in Iraq).



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