Delphine Bonnet's 'Lala, je te vois où que tu sois' Chronicles Mother Nicole Lala's Photography

On October 7, 2026, French art director and graphic designer Delphine Bonnet will release 'Lala, je te vois où que tu sois', a book that brings to light the photographic work of her mother, Nicole Lala. The publication, prefaced by Marie Robert, curator of photography at the Musée d'Orsay, combines autobiographical narrative with a selection of Lala's photographs taken from the 1950s to the 1980s. Nicole Lala worked as a photographer-reporter for the communist magazine REGARDS and as a set photographer, capturing French cinema icons such as Alain Resnais and Jeanne Moreau. The book also features intimate portraits of Delphine herself, from her birth to age 26. Delphine Bonnet, a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, has harbored the desire to share her mother's work since she was 13. Marie Robert, who also co-directed 'Une histoire mondiale des femmes photographes' (Textuel, 2020) and spent a year at the Villa Médicis in 2023, provides the preface. The book is described as a 'coup de cœur' and reveals the exceptional work of a previously unknown photographer.