| About JP
Gauvrit
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 in the outskirts of Paris
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