Ministerio, Rio, Brasilien, 1960
"What counts is putting the intensity that you yourself have experienced into the picture. Otherwise it is just a document."
René Burri
As a Magnum photographer and reporter, René Burri (1933-2014) created iconic images in the history of 20th century photography. As a photojournalist, he took viewers to all corners of the world with his vivid reports. A member of Magnum Photos since 1955, he photographed in Southeast Asia and the Middle East and documented the Vietnam War in the 1960s, the Six-Day War (1967) and the Yom Kippur War (1973). His photographic works were always about people, committed, multi-layered and empathetic. The ideal of humane, empathetic, and respectful photojournalism was the guiding principle of his work.