Peru is a country of staggering contrasts, where ancient civilizations and living traditions endure beneath some of the world’s most dramatic landscapes. For photographers, it offers both spectacle and history, though perhaps more importantly, culture enduring across time and place.

Few photographers have observed the world with the patient moral attention of Raymond Depardon. Across continents, conflicts, and generations, he has captured lives with a quiet rigor: images that are never sensational, never performative, but insist upon being seen.