Jean-Claude Delalande was the winner of the 2024 Viviane Esders Prize, which highlights the work of a European photographer over the age of sixty.
It was during his photography studies at the Montreuil school in 1993 that Jean-Claude Delalande began developing his series Quotidien.
Staged black-and-white self-portraits with almost surreal contrasts retrace the eclectic everyday life of his couple and family.
His partner, child, and several friends readily take part in this long-term narrative.
The playfulness of the scenes he photographs is balanced by the seriousness of his gaze, which nearly always pierces through the lens.
Pool floats, plastic sword fights—his daily life evolves as his son grows up.
A portrait of ordinary life, approached through the lens of humor—inviting anyone to see themselves in it.
Jean-Claude Delalande
Photographe
Jean-Claude Delalande began his career at the age of 18 in an insurance company, while nurturing his passion for photography.
He started with family portraits, melancholic landscapes, and self-portraits. In 1993, he undertook training in Montreuil-sous-Bois and developed a body of work combining staged scenes and self-portraits with his loved ones, particularly in the series Quotidien.
He also created other series such as Asymétrie, Clair et Obscur, Mortes Natures, En construction, and La vie en rose.
His work has been exhibited in prestigious venues including the MEP (Maison Européenne de la Photographie), the BnF (Bibliothèque nationale de France), the MuCEM, and the Rencontres d’Arles, and is part of several public collections.
Thierry Valletoux
Auteur, Journaliste
Thierry Valletoux is a photographer, writer, and journalist, widely recognized as a portraitist and press reporter (Studio Magazine, Télérama, Le Monde, Libération).
He now focuses on film sets, working with leading figures in cinema such as Bertrand Blier, Terry Gilliam, Alain Resnais, Agnès Jaoui, and Woody Allen.
Curious and passionate about the history of photography, he does not merely take pictures—he questions them, tells their stories.
He regularly writes about his peers—both renowned and lesser-known. His texts, blending investigation, portraiture, and analysis, are published in Like, a quarterly magazine entirely devoted to photography.