Born in 1955 in Choisy-le-Roi, France. Lives and works in Paris. Patrick Zachmann is a French photographer, photo-journalist, and film director. Since 1978, he has been a self-employed photographer and a member of the Magnum Agency since 1990.
Patrick Zachmann has been working on a long-term project since 1976 to cast light on the complexity of communities whose identity, memory, and culture he questions. From 1982 to 1984, while researching highway landscapes with the support of the French Ministry of Culture, he worked in Marseille, on young people of immigrant origin.
Between 1996 and 1998, Patrick Zachmann made a short film called La Mémoire de mon père, and his first long film on the disappearance of traces from collective memory, particularly in Chile, Allers-retour. Journal d’un photographe.
Patrick Zachmann regularly works at the Ecole nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris and the Ecole supérieure de photographie et des arts graphiques in Rome.
