Georges Simenon. Photos of a World in Crisis

Georges Simenon (Liege 1903 – Lausanne 1989) is the most widely sold, translated and adapted French-language writer of the twentieth century. Known across the world as a novelist and journalist, Simenon was also passionate about photography. Throughout the numerous trips he made between 1931 and 1935, he captured on film a world that was doomed to disappear.

In this publication, Benoît Denis, Director of the Georges Simenon Study Centre and Professor at the University of Liege, takes us in the footsteps of Georges Simenon the photographer.

The book has been published on the occasion of the exhibition Simenon. Images d'un monde en crise. Photographies 1931-1935 (Simenon, Images of a World in Crisis, Photographs 1931-1935) being held at the Grand Curtius of Liege between 8 March and 27 August, 2323.