Jean-Christian Bourcart

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 Galerie Le Manège, Institut français, Dakar, Sénégal Caochangdi PhotoSpring, Beijing, China Le bleu du ciel Art Center, Lyon, France Galerie Confluence, Nantes ‘’Kailash," Hôtel Fontfreyde, Clermont Ferrand Images - Festival des arts visuels de Vevey
 * 2012 Shanghai Gallery of Art, China
 * 2011‘’Kailash," Galerie VU’, Paris
 * 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 Square/Unspeakable"', 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

Prizes

 * 2011 Nadar prize for best photographic book for Camden
 * 2010 Niépce Prize, Paris
 * 2006 Prix du du Jeu de Paume, Paris
 * 1999 Prix Gilles Dusein, Paris
 * 1997 Prix d’interprétation masculine, "Premiers Plans," Festival de Belfort
 * 1997 Prix du Jury, Festival d’Annecy
 * 1991 World Press Awards, categorie Art, Amsterdam
 * 1984 Prix Polaroïd