Jean-Christian Bourcart
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Jean-Christian Bourcart (born 1960) is a French artistic photographer and film maker. He collected unsold wedding pictures, photographed in brothels and S&M cubs, photographed New Yorkers stuck in traffic jams, projected pictures of Iraqi victims on American houses, churches and supermarkets, wrote and published his autobiography and documented lengthy the city of Camden, NJ, one of the poorest and most dangerous city in the USA. He also directed two fiction feature movies, the first one during the war in Bosnia, the second, a sci-fi thriller in New York art world, starring the awards-winner Elodie Bouchez. He is also an active video filmmaker. Nine books about his work have been published. He has been teaching and conducting workshops all along his career. In 2021, all his archives were deposited at the musée Nicephore Niepce in Chalon-sur-Saône in France.
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Awards: Nadar Prize, Paris, 2011 Nominated for Pictet prize 2010 & 2011, ICP awards 2010, BMW award 2010 Niepce Prize, Paris 2010 Prix du du Jeu de Paume, Paris, 2006 Prix Gilles Dusein, Paris,1999 Prix d’interprétation masculine, “Premiers Plans,” Festival de Belfort,1997 Prix du Jury, Festival d’Annecy 1997 World Press Awards, categorie Art, Amsterdam, 1991 Prix Polaroïd, 1984