Bleu Blanc Rouge

In Bleu Blanc Rouge, Christopher Anderson lays out a decade of color pictures made across the United States and Europe like pages torn from an unfinished magazine, image after image left to argue its own case.

The photographs move between New York, France, Italy, Spain, and Germany, mixing portraits, street moments, and still lifes with no fixed narrative thread. What holds the sequence together is a set of recurring visual notes: the color red, repeated shapes, and the low light of late afternoon. Some pairings tell a clear story; others sit apart, and Anderson leaves the reader to decide whether they belong together at all. Hatje Cantz published the book with text by Nadine Barth, alongside an exhibition of the same title at The Ravestijn Gallery in Amsterdam.

Anderson has spent two decades moving between photojournalism, fashion, and art photography as a member of Magnum Photos, a career that also includes Son, Capitolio, and Stump. Bleu Blanc Rouge sits at the loosest end of that body of work, less a project than a working method laid bare.