Luc Delahaye (born 1962) is a French photographer known for his large-scale color works depicting conflicts, world events or social issues. His pictures are characterized by detachment, directness and rich details, a documentary approach which is however countered by dramatic intensity and a narrative structure.^[1]

Delahaye has been awarded the Robert Capa Gold Medal twice,^[2] the Oskar Barnack Award,^[3] an Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography,^[4] the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize^[5] and the Prix Pictet.^[6]

Delahaye started his career as a photojournalist. He joined the photo agency Sipa Press in the mid-1980s and dedicated himself to war reporting. In 1994, he joined the Magnum Photos cooperative and Newsweek magazine (he left Magnum in 2004).^[2] He worked during the 1980s and 1990s as a war photographer in Afghanistan, Rwanda, Bosnia, Israel/Palestine, the Gulf,^[7] Chechnya,^[8] and Lebanon. His photography was characterized by its raw, direct recording of news and often combined a perilous closeness to events with an intellectual detachment in the questioning of his own presence.^[2][9] This concern was later mirrored in minimalist series published as books, notably Portrait/1, a set of photobooth portraits of homeless people and L'Autre, a series of candid portraits made with a hidden camera in the Paris subway.^[7] With Winterreise, he explored the social consequences of the economic depression in Russia, "travelling from Moscow to Vladivostok, during which he spent months in the hovels of Russia's underclass".^[7] In 2001, Delahaye conducted a radical formal change.^[2] Documenting conflicts, political events or social issues, his pictures are made using large or medium format cameras, sometimes edited on computers and are shown in museums.^[2] While exploring the boundaries between reality and the imaginary,^[10] they constitute documents-monuments of immediate history,^[11] and urge reflection "upon the relationships among art, history and information".^[1]

• Portraits/1 (Sommaire, 1996)
• Memo (Hazan, 1997)
• L'Autre (Phaidon, 1999)
• Winterreise (Phaidon, 2000)
• Une Ville (Xavier Barral, 2003)
• History (Chris Boot, 2003)
• Luc Delahaye 2006–2010 (Steidl, 2011)

• 1992: Robert Capa Gold Medal^[2][12]
• 2000: Oskar Barnack Award^[3]
• 2001: Infinity Award: Photojournalism, International Center of Photography, New York^[4]
• 2001: Robert Capa Gold Medal^[12][2]
• 2002: Niepce Prize^{[citation needed]}
• 2002: Photojournalism prize, Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for war correspondents^{[citation needed]}
• 2005: Deutsche Börse Photography Prize^[5]
• 2012: Prix Pictet^[6]

Delahaye's work is held in the following public collections:

• Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia^[13]
• J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles: 2 prints (as of June 2021)^[14]
• High Museum of Art, Atlanta^[15][16]
• Huis Marseille, Amsterdam^[17]
• International Center of Photography, New York: 1 print (as of June 2021)^[18]
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art: 7 prints (as of June 2021)^[19]
• Museum Helmond [nl]^[20]
• National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa: 1 print (as of June 2021)^[21]
• National Media Museum, Bradford, UK^[22]
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco: 2 prints (as of June 2021)^[23]
• Tate, UK: 7 prints (as of June 2021)^[24]