A propos de l'auteur jp gauvrit
Jean-Philippe Gauvrit
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Site Web : www.jpgauvrit.net
Pays : France
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Born in 1963 in France. Born to photography 20 years later, after discovering Alexander Rodtchenko’s low angle shots. Photography becomes a regular activity after a first series of jazz concerts, jazz music remains ever since a constant source of inspiration, inseparable from picture taking.
In the early 90ies, Lee Friedlander, met during a workshop at Arles Photo Festival encourages him to keep on working on his “strange pictures”, while French photographer Arnaud Claass teaches him about visual rigor and introduces him to the work of Walker Evans, another aesthetical reference for his photography. As of 1993 he begins a series on the Paris St-Germain Football club’s fans, the anonymous passerby’s in big cities such as Paris and New York, and a series of landscapes in urban no-man’s lands.
From this period onwards he started photographing street scenes, in particular in Prague, in Hungary and in Asia.
From 2002 to 2007, a professional expatriation allows him the opportunity to begin a documentary work, first in black and white, then in color, about Shanghai’s popular and industrial neighborhoods bound for demolition.
JPG is the winner in May 2007 of the on-line competition organized by Vis-à-vis international Magazine, with 6 images extracted from this work
In March 2008 publication of the book “Shanghai in JPG” (see next) and exhibition of 14 pictures at Shanghai Epsite gallery - Moganshan Lu.
In February 2009 a portfolio of 16 pictures is edited by the French journal "Monde Chinois".
On-going projects: Zhenghzhou China
Mes centres d'intérêt
photographie, jazz, poesie, tous etant indissociables
