Gilles Caron

1964 Starts making photographs after meeting painter André Derain’s son. Joins the Apis agency the following year, and Gamma agency in 1967 with his friend and photographer Raymond Depardon.

1967 Produces his main photographic works: the Six-Day war (June), the Vietnam war

1968 protests in Paris, and the Nigerian-Biafran War, travel of Charles de Gaulle in Romania and Turkey.

1969 Works in Northern Ireland, Prague (Czechoslovakia) and Israël.

1970 Works in Chad where he is kept prisoner by government forces for a month. Gilles Caron dies on April 5. in a area controlled by Red Khmers on his way to Vietnam.

1978 Gilles Caron reportages, exhibition at Petite Galerie de la Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

1990 Hommage à Gilles Caron, retrospective at Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland

1994Gilles Caron 1969, exhibition at Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie festival, Arles, France

2006 Chant-Contrechant : Gilles Caron-Don McCullin 

2008 Gilles Caron Mai 68, exhibition at Promenades photographiques de Vendôme festival, France

2013 Gilles Caron, le conflit intérieur, exhibition at Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland