Fifty years of black and white, of planes taken at dawn, of cold hotel rooms, of faces straining towards his lens. Alain Keler, one of the greatest French photojournalists who worked for the Sygma, Gamma, and MYOP agencies, has seen and photographed just about every tragedy the century has produced: the Lebanese Civil War, post-revolutionary Iran, El Salvador, Chechnya, Ethiopia in the rain (World Press Photo 1986), the erased minorities of the Soviet bloc, the Roma of Central Europe.

Beneath the Gothic stained-glass windows of the Sainte-Chapelle, his photographs tell the story of this journey. At the end, the reversal: the portraits of his dying parents and the reporter who becomes a son again, accompanying each of his photographs with his own words.

WORTH VISIT

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In the heart of the Château de Vincennes, bristling with a fifty-two-meter-high keep, one of the tallest in medieval Europe, Charles V commissioned a royal Sainte-Chapelle in the 14th century, modeled after the one on the Île de la Cité, to house the relics of the Passion. It would take until 1552 and the reign of Henry II for it to be consecrated. Renaissance stained glass, verting vaults, a sanctuary of light at the heart of a fortress that would later house Mirabeau, Sade and Diderot. Now entrusted to the Centre des Monuments Nationaux, the Sainte-Chapelle of Vincennes opens the doors to contemporary art.

Monument included in the Carte Passion Monument subscription from the Centre des Monuments Nationaux: more than 80 monuments with unlimited access.

CHÂTEAU DE VINCENNES
Until September 11, 2026
Av. de Paris, 94300 Vincennes
Metro: Château de Vincennes (1)
Open daily 10am-1pm and 2pm-6pm - Price: €13
Reduced rate: €11.50 - Free for under 26s