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At nineteen years old, he discovered the pleasure of photography…In this art, he finally found the satisfaction of exercising his imaginative and sensitive eye on an environment that was, up until then, very constraining. He hones his talent by intensely practicing fashion photography, portraits and photojournalism. In 1993 he returned to Vietnam for the first time. It was with much emotion that he rediscovered the country where he had lived a good part of his childhood. Back in France, he exhibited his work for the first time at the IESA (Institut Européen des Science de l’Art). Despite the warm reviews he received at this exhibition, he didn’t think himself sufficiently ready to fully become a photographer. Even though he worked in Assistance for more than ten years, in 2003 he enrolled in a training program dedicated to the different aspects of photography at the Centre Iris, situated in the 3rd district in Paris. This was the culmination of a dream that took many long years to turn into reality. This training brought him not only a well-developed technical knowledge, but above all, a daily confrontation with the work of other photographers. This allowed him to make big leaps ahead in his training and better define his future projects. Imagination and creation took the lead over “realist” photography, which he had practiced from the beginning. “Buddha’s thoughts” illustrate this conscious choice, and brought him the premises of artistic freedom… Today, Jean-Marc Clairet lives and works in Paris as an author-photographer and he brings us new work like “Bridges” or “Femininity”… The artist thanks the Musée Guimet, National Museum of Asiatic Arts in Paris, and Inter-Gestion, presided over by Mr. Gilbert Rodriguez, for their support, Leanne Lee as model and translator, Pierre Rudel as webmaster. He also express his gratitude to Susan.A.Zadeh (founder of the great Eyemazing magazine) for having published 10 pages about his work (issue02-2006). |
