Alain Keler
Alain Keler was born in France in 1945. He has been with the MYOP agency since 2008. Alain Keler began his career with Sygma and Gamma, before co-founding Odyssey images in 1989. From the 1980s onwards, he covered many conflicts in Lebanon, Chechnya, Israel and Palestine, the Iranian revolution and the civil war in El Salvador. In 1986, he won the Grand Prix Paris Match for photojournalism for “Éthiopie sous la pluie” (Ethiopia in the rain), and the World Press Photo. He has also worked on minorities in the former communist bloc (W. Eugene Smith Award) and on discrimination against the Roma in Europe. In 2004, he was awarded a prize by the 3 P association in Paris for the project “Le Pays de la terre qui brûle” (The Land of Burning Earth) on the complexity of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. > Read more
In 2015, he published 1982, a genuine logbook revisiting forty years of his photographic career, with Editions de Juillet. Like an archaeologist, he delves into his archives and contact sheets, unearthing the treasures and writings that make up the off-camera of his images.
In 2022, he was awarded the Visa d'Or d'honneur by Figaro Magazine at the Visa pour l'Image's Festival, which honors the career of a photographer who is still active. In November 2023, he was named Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by Madame Rina Abdulmalak, former Minister of Culture. He joins the Polka Gallery in 2024.
Exhibitions at Polka Galerie
Exhibitions at Polka Galerie
