Bruno Barbey - MAROC - 2003

Bruno Barbey (Rabat, French Protectorate of Morocco, February 13, 1941 – Orbais-l'Abbaye, France, November 9, 2020) was a Moroccan-born, French-Swiss naturalized photographer, photojournalist for the Magnum agency. He received the National Order of Merit of France in 1985.[1]

Education and career
He received his training in photography and graphic arts in the late 1950s — from 1959 to 1960 — at the School of Arts and Crafts in the Swiss city of Vevey. After completing his studies, he began his professional career; thus, Italy became a reference point for part of his work from 1961 until the mid-1960s. Additionally, during this period, he took on the role of commissioner for Éditions Rencontre in Lausanne for Africa and Europe, and as an assistant for Vogue. From 1964, he became an associate member of Magnum, alongside his career as a photojournalist.

He is the author of a collection of photographs taken on the streets of Paris during May 68, as well as various works that span most of the world at war—from Kuwait to Nigeria, including Ireland and Cambodia—and those that portray his personal vision of his native Morocco.

He exhibited in galleries and museums in Shanghai, Madrid, Istanbul, Paris, and Berlin, among others, in addition to publishing more than a dozen books and participating in several films.[3]

In 2016, Barbey was elected a member of the Academy of Fine Arts of the Institute of France.

He died of a heart attack on November 9, 2020, in Roubaix.