What remains of an event or a public figure is often boiled down to a single photograph that leaves its mark on the collective unconscious. For every President of the Republic, the image on offer is politicized, designed to serve the image he wants to project.

The photographs that accompany each occupant of the Élysée are official, candid, celebrity-style, staged, and sometimes botched. They mark out his political journey, from the campaign to a possible re-election. The film Presidents in the Frame gives a voice to the photographers who tell us about their work and their role in this photographic saga of power under the Fifth Republic, its evolution and its resurgence in today’s digital world.