Frédéric Jacquet

I am a French technical artist, maker of dreamlike, surreal and poetic images.
Mixing techniques, old photographic archives and modern digital tools.
My themes are the multiple times of our history via associations of ideas and memories.


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And to find out more
The french image maker Frederic Jacquet was born in Vienne, France in 1967.
Begining with drawing and painting, he quickly moved to large format photography, used as a tool to produce illustrations on literary themes or allegoric surrealistic strange pictures.

Beside his personnal research, he starts an advertising photographer and filmmaker career in 1991, and collaborates with various companies, magazines and publishers, mostly in Paris, Tokyo and New-York.

He is now living and working in an old silk factory in the Ardèche, south-east of France, where he can feed his interest for industrial mechanics from the past and various collections of heterogeneous objects.
The beautiful nature all around is also a main source of inspiration.
Books from the french romantic period, Isidore Ducasse, Charles Baudelaire, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Alfred Jarry, Edgard Allan Poe, Rachilde, continue to fascinate him... as well as the exploration of human psyche, poetry, the philosop...

Frederic Jacquet brievly learned Art from Lyon Bellecour Art School, and become assistant in a large photography studio where he learns rigor and exigence of light shaping and all the art of development and enlargement. This period was a chance to produce a serious photobook.
This work was recognized and published very quickly in numerous international magazines.

As an independent artist, Frédéric Jacquet has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows internationally including :

Galerie Pierre Passebon - Paris
Musée du Louvre | exposition Gitane, partner Louis Vuitton - Paris
Deep Gallery - Tokyo, Japan
Kobe Fashion Museum – Kobe, Japan
Internationaler Salon für fotografie - Frankfurt
XL-Art Center - Ixelles, Belgium
Studio Mac Mahon with Tsuyoshi Hirano - Paris
Galerie Vivienne with Tsuyoshi Hirano - Paris
H.P. France with Tsuyoshi Hirano - Paris
Centre Wallonie Bruxelles - Paris

He was represented by Elizabeth Lecocq (artists agency), and for many years by Nicolas Langot (photographers agent).

Parthnership and collaboration with :
Lacoste Lab, Louis Vuitton, Galeries Lafayette, Maison Française, Elle, Studio Voice, La Monnaie de Paris, Monoprix, Le Printemps, Le BHV, Kobe Fashion Museum, Tomorrow Land Co. Ltd., Tai Ping Carpet, Editions Assouline, Moët Hennessy, Shiseido ...