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 in China 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. In 2008, he completed a work about popular districts of Singapore.

2009: On-going projects in China about ordinary cities (Zhengzhou in Henan province and Shenyang in Liaonin province) and in the outskirts of Paris (T2190) 

Winner in May 2007 of the on-line competition organized by  "Vis-à-vis international Magazine", with 6 images extracted from his work about Shanghai

In March 2008 publication of the book “Shanghai in JPG” and collective exhibition"Shanghai without the Oriental Pearl Tower" at the Epsite Gallery Shanghai

January 2009: portfolio of 18 pictures with one text published in the French journal"Monde Chinois"

contact: jpgauvrit@yahoo.fr

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