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.
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
Solo exhibitions (selection) 2021 "Au bord du reél," Fondation M.R.O, Arles "F.S.A., l'inconscient de Roy Stryker," 8 Belze,Arles 2020 "Black Sheet," Manifesto Festival, Toulouse 2019 "L'oiseau noir perché à droite dans ma tête", Fisheye Galerie, Paris 2018 "Une excuse pour regarder," Musée Nicéphore Nièpce, Chalon sur Saône 2017 "Day of Wrath, " Fisheye Gallery, Paris, France "Humano Todavia," Valenzuela Klenner Gallery, Bogota, Colombia "Camden," Chongqing festival, China 2016 "Camden," International Photographic festival, Chengzhou, China "The dawn came but no day", Festival "Portraits," Vichy "Camden," International Photographic festival , Zhengzhou, China
2015 "All about Love," galerie VU', Paris
2014 "All about Love," Black Box Gallery, Brooklyn, USA
2013 ‘’Camden," Invisible Dog Art center, Brooklyn, USA
"Exerts,"Roger Williams University, Bristol, USA
" Tana," French Institute, Antananarivo, Madagascar
2012 Shanghai Gallery of Art, China
Galerie Le Manège, Institut français, Dakar, Sénégal
Caochangdi PhotoSpring, Beijing, China
Le bleu du ciel Art Center, Lyon, France
2011‘’Kailash," Galerie VU’, Paris
Galerie Confluence, Nantes
‘’Kailash," Hôtel Fontfreyde, Clermont Ferrand
Images - Festival des arts visuels de Vevey
2010 "Camden", Museum für Photographie Braunschweig
"10th International photo Exhibition," Shanghai
"Camden", Images - Festival des arts visuels de Vevey
2009: "Camden", Rencontres Internationales d’Arles
2008: "Le plus beau jour de la vie," Rencontres Internationales d’Arles
2007: "Stardust", Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York; Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris; "Stardust," Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, 2006: "Traffic," Museu da Imagem, Braga, Portugal 2006: "Traffic", Fototeca, Monterrey, Mexico 2004: "Traffic", Galerie Léo Scheer, Paris 2002: "Le plus beau jour de la vie", Kagan Martos Gallery, New York 2001: "Forbidden city", galerie Catherine Bastide, Bruxelles 2000: Galerie du Jour, Paris 1993: "Les filles de la gare centrale," Galerie Urbi & Orbi, Paris
Filmography
2017: "KLCK28," HDV, 3min40
2016: "Take my money," HDV 3min15
2015:Tahrir sqare/Unpeakable, HDV, '' 8min 34, CrossEyed Production
2011: ‘’Fortune Tellers," HDV, 12min, CrossEyed Production
2010: "Memories of the days to come" 35mm, 80 min, Le Bureau production
2008: "Encore une fois," DV, 4 min. 30
2007: "Stardust, the film," DV, 1 min. 30
2006: "Me, my cell and I’," DV, 9 min
2005: "It’s today", DV, 7 min; "The decisive act," DV, 8 min. 30; "Stories of hell," DV, 6 min. 15 2004: "Rapture," DV, 10 min. 30; "Bardo/Autoportrait," DV, 5min. 15 2003: "Videhole," DV, 2 min. 30 1999: "(de) la fenêtre," vidéo, 26 min D.A.P, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication 1997: "Elvis," fiction movie, 35 mm, 65 min,Lazennec Production 1996: "Céline en galère," video, 46 min, Io Production 1993: "Casablanca," video with Robert Frank, 8 min 1992: "Les filles de la gare centrale," vidéo, 12 min
