Ole Christiansen is a Danish photographer whose career spans more than five decades across reportage, portrait, and documentary photography. With a sharp eye for atmosphere and human presence, he has captured moments where culture, fame, and reality collide. In the 1970s and ’80s, Christiansen became a familiar face along the Croisette, photographing the Cannes Film Festival during its most iconic years — a time defined by freedom, glamour, and raw spontaneity. His archive from this period offers a rare glimpse into a world before red carpets became controlled stages — when stars mingled with the crowd and stories unfolded in the sunlight and smoke of the Riviera.

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Ole Christiansen is a Danish photographer whose career spans more than five decades across reportage, portrait, and documentary photography. With a sharp eye for atmosphere and human presence, he has captured moments where culture, fame, and reality collide. In the 1970s and ’80s, Christiansen became a familiar face along the Croisette, photographing the Cannes Film Festival during its most iconic years — a time defined by freedom, glamour, and raw spontaneity. His archive from this period offers a rare glimpse into a world before red carpets became controlled stages — when stars mingled with the crowd and stories unfolded in the sunlight and smoke of the Riviera.

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Ole Christiansen is a Danish photographer whose career spans more than five decades across reportage, portrait, and documentary photography. With a sharp eye for atmosphere and human presence, he has captured moments where culture, fame, and reality collide. In the 1970s and ’80s, Christiansen became a familiar face along the Croisette, photographing the Cannes Film Festival during its most iconic years — a time defined by freedom, glamour, and raw spontaneity. His archive from this period offers a rare glimpse into a world before red carpets became controlled stages — when stars mingled with the crowd and stories unfolded in the sunlight and smoke of the Riviera.

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