The museum’s permanent exhibition displays more than 100 photos selected from the Patrick Chauvel collection!
Patrick Chauvel was born in 1949 in Paris, the grandson of the ambassador Jean Chauvel and the son of Jean-François Chauvel, a member of the Resistance and soldier in the 2nd Armored Division, and Antonia Luciani, also a member of the Resistance and of the SAS during the World War II.
The museum’s permanent exhibition displays more than 100 photos selected from the Patrick Chauvel collection!
Visitors can discover a permanent exhibition presenting around a hundred photographs. From Vietnam in 1968 to Ukraine in 2019, the photographer recounts past and presents wars. This space, dedicated to 50 years of work in the field, reminds visitors of the complex history of the 20th and 21st centuries, while highlighting the values and ethics of the profession of journalist. Patrick Chauvel is, in particular, covering the Russian war in Ukraine. Since February 2023, the reporter has displayed a selection of photographs of the conflict at the Memorial Museum.
This exhibition is completely open and free of charge.
An entire area dedicated to Patrick Chauvel’s archives has been created at the Caen Memorial Museum.
This unique documentary source is composed of 380,000 images, including 80,000 in digital format, indexed in France and English, and almost 1,000 hours of video, covering almost all conflicts during the Cold War and the period since 9/11. Prints, negatives, slides, videos, and manuscripts have therefore been gathered together and are accessible for the first time.
Thanks to the regular presence of the reporter, the Patrick Chauvel Foundation and the Caen Memorial Museum propose educational events about contemporary conflicts, the role of the reporter, and the interpretation of reports.
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