To mark Leica’s 100th anniversary, Leica Gallery Paris is exhibiting images by french photojournalist Édouard Elias together with Leica Hall of Fame inductee Thomas Hoepker. The two protagonists engage in a photographic dialogue that give us insight into the war zones and conflict areas around the world, while evoking memories of important moments in history. Édouard Elias Born in Nîmes in 1991. After spending ten years in Egypt, Elias returns to France and studies photography at the École de Condé in Nancy. After doing a reportage on a refugee camp in Turkey, he begins to document the Syrian civil war. He is held captive for ten months there. His work has appeared in Der Spiegel, Paris Match and Sunday Times Magazine. Thomas Hoepker Born in Munich in 1936. Early successes and awards. Photo reporter for Münchner Illustrierte in 1960; as of 1962 he is a member of the Kristall editorial team and then works for Stern as of 1964. In addition to black and white pictures, Hoepker produces early colour pictures for the magazines. Starting in the 1970s, he also works as a cameraman producing numerous documentaries and TV movies. Hoepker moves to New York in 1976, and from 1978 to 1981 is the Executive Editor of the American edition of GEO. He returns to Hamburg and works as Art Director in the chief editorial team of Stern. In 1989 he becomes the first German member of the renowned Magnum Photos Agency, acting as its President from 2003 to 2007. He produces further documentaries with his second wife, the filmmaker Christine Kruchen. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Culture Prize of the German Photographic Society (DGPh) in 1968. In 2005, thousands of photographs are donated to the Photography Museum of the City of Munich. After a long illness, he passes away on 10 July 2024 in Santiago de Chile.