Christian Caujolle has died yesterday.
He was the best of us.
Of the generation that discovered and began writing about photography in the 1970s, he was the most brilliant, the most cultured, the most passionate, and the most daring, simultaneously favoring social photography and fine art photography.
A very close friendship had long bound us together, it was not always easy between the man behind the images of Libération and Vu and the editor of PHOTO.
Yet, I have lost count of those endless lunches where we exchanged all our ideas, anecdotes, and comments.
In our archives, you will discover the hundred or so texts he wrote for L’Oeil de la Photographie.
He had been in bad shape for a long time.
Lately, it has been even worse, and his emails and calls were desperate.
We will come back to him.
Love to you, Christian!
Jean-Jacques Naudet
