크리스토프 자크로(Christophe Jacrot), 프랑스, 사진가, 1960-현재
프랑스 파리에 살고 있는 '크리스토프 자크로'는, 젊은 시절 단편영화를 제작하며 주목을 받았으나 지금은 사진작가로 활동하고 있습니다. 파리의 화창한 관광홍보 사진을 의뢰받았지만 비는 연일 퍼붓고.. , 결국 그는 악천후 속에서도 멋진 이미지를 포착하였고, 'Paris in the Rain' 시리즈 작품으로 좋은 반응을 얻었습니다.
이후 그는 비가 온다든지, 안개가 끼었다든지, 폭설이 내리는 등 극도로 나쁜 날씨 속에서 풍경사진을 찍는 '악천후 전문작가'가 되었습니다. 특히 눈 속에서 찍은 그의 작품에서는 빛의 뉘앙스와 극적인 긴장감, 그리고 차가운 공기가 느껴집니다.
아이슬란드와 페로제도, 알프스, 시베리아의 북쪽 도시 등을 찾아다니며 설경을 렌즈에 담고 있지만, 지구 온난화로 인해 점점 더 겨울다운 겨울풍경을 찾기가 어렵다고 하네요.
About Him
Born in 1960, Christophe Jacrot is a contemporary photographer living in Paris. The artist has been dabbling in photography since his adolescence but was first noticed in the cinema. He directed several short films, most of which received awards. Feeling the financial constraints that the cinematographic industry can sometimes impose, Christophe Jacrot turned his attention to photography, an art-form to which he applied his talents utterly.
At one stage commissioned to produce sunny images of Paris for a tourist brochure, the photographer ends up putting together an artistic project involving cities in inclement weather. “The weather was desperately bad, which gave me the idea to photograph several somewhat more untraditional images of Paris to capture these amazing ambiances that few photograph. I had in mind Henri Cartier-Bresson’s fabulous photo of Giacometti in the rain, and the photo of a guy jumping over a puddle in front of the Trocadero, by Elliott Erwitt.”
Out of this project comes, in 2007, a first exhibition at the Lucernaire which very rapidly leads Christopohe Jacrot to the publication of a book of his photography, Paris in the rain (Edition, Chêne.)
Since then he has been successfully continuing this study in different cities. He has photographed Hong Kong, Tokyo or Taipei in the mist and the rain (Hong Kong and Asia in the Rain series) as well as New York in a snow storm ( New York in White series.) In October of 2012 again in New York Christophe photographed entire districts devoid of electricity and plunged into darkness after Hurricane Sandy (New York in Black series.) More recently the photographer headed for Iceland and its natural landscapes and the coast of Normandy in France which he has captured under a thick blanket of snow and in the midst of a storm ( Snjór and Blizzard series.)
In 2020, the television channel ARTE has released a small reportage about Christophe Jacrot. Curated by the journalist Richard Bonnet.
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