Editing Marc Riboud (section)

==Career==
Until 1951 Riboud worked as an engineer in Lyon factories, but took a week-long picture-taking vacation, inspiring him to become a photographer.<ref name="Josefburg">[http://www.skjstudio.com/riboud/ SK Josefburg Studio biography] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110307120731/http://www.skjstudio.com/riboud/ |date=7 March 2011 }}</ref> He moved to Paris where he met [[Henri Cartier-Bresson]], [[Robert Capa]], and [[David Seymour (photographer)|David Seymour]], the founders of [[Magnum Photos]]. By 1953 he was a member of the organization. His ability to capture fleeting moments in life through powerful compositions was already apparent, and this skill was to serve him well for decades to come.

Over the next several decades, Riboud traveled around the world. In 1957, he was one of the first European photographers to go to China, and in 1968, 1972, and 1976, Riboud made several [[reportages]] on [[North Vietnam]].  Later he traveled all over the world, but mostly in Asia, Africa, the U.S. and Japan. Riboud has been witness to the atrocities of war (photographing from both the Vietnam and the American sides of the Vietnam War), and the apparent degradation of a culture repressed from within (China during the years of chairman [[Mao Zedong]]'s [[Cultural Revolution]]). In contrast, he has captured the graces of daily life, set in sun-drenched facets of the globe ([[Fès]], [[Angkor]], [[Acapulco]], [[Niger]], [[Bénarès]], Shaanxi), and the lyricism of child's play in everyday Paris.  In 1979 Riboud left the Magnum agency.

Riboud's photographs have appeared in numerous magazines, including ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'', ''Géo'', ''[[National Geographic (magazine)|National Geographic]]'', ''[[Paris Match]]'', and ''[[Stern (magazine)|Stern]]''. He twice won the [[Overseas Press Club]] Award, received the [[World Photography Organisation|Lifetime Achievement Award]] at the 2009 Sony World Photography Awards and has had major retrospective exhibitions at the [[Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris]] and the [[International Center of Photography]] in New York.

Riboud was made an Honorary Fellow of the [[Royal Photographic Society]] in 1998.<ref name="rps">{{cite web | url = http://www.rps.org/about/awards/history-and-recipients/honorary-fellowships | accessdate = 8 March 2017 | publisher = [[Royal Photographic Society]] | title = Honorary Fellowships (HonFRPS) | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170127135803/http://www.rps.org/about/awards/history-and-recipients/honorary-fellowships | archive-date = 27 January 2017 | url-status = dead }}</ref>