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JOURNEY OF A PHOTOGRAPHER

For around thirty years, I traveled the five continents as a reporter covering documentary stories. Experiencing the world and meeting others were great experiences even though it was sometimes difficult. At the time, my work was intended to serve the readers between the documentary and the graphic expression. Although close to journalism, I chose to remain an artist-author favoring long-term reporting with a view to exhibitions and the publication of fine books.
Over the course of this long journey, I wondered about our relationship to the environment. My work then evolved into an artistic approach through historical and alternative processes.
From now on, I devote myself fully to this project. My work is intended to be exhibited and I try to present at least one exhibition annually. I am also committed to the teaching of photographic processes by leading training courses and publishing educational books.

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THE STUDY

In 1981, after training in photography, I graduated from the ESP, photography school in Paris. Throughout my career, I have never stopped studying with Masters or in various courses: Hindi and Indian culture in India; video production at INA; gemology at the Saumur jewelry school; the platinum palladium print with Laurent Lafolie; historical photographic processes at the Atelier Jean-Charles Gros...

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ON THE ROADS

In 1984 I set up an advertising shooting studio in Paris. Until 1991, it allowed me to finance my first long-term works in India and the Himalayas. From 1991 I worked as a freelance photographer for magazines, distributed by Gamma then Sygma. At the same time, I am involved in in-depth stories with a view to book publications. In 1999, I joined the team of Grands Reportages magazine. Each year, I produced for this magazine around ten text and photographic reports through out the world. I also work on the publication of books as well as exhibitions.

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CREATING AND PASSING ON

In 2016, I developed my artistic projects of experimental photography. Between 2017 and 2019, I taught photography and the history of photography in a master's degree in journalism. I publish educational works on alternative photography and I regularly exhibit my work. In 2020, lockdowns limited public events. This forced break allowed me to intensify research to develop "earth print" a printing technique using soil material collected on the shooting location..

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

livre pierres precieuses mogok

MOGOK, LA VALLÉE DES PIERRES PRÉCIEUSES

Photographs Jean-Baptiste Rabouan

Collective statement directed by Kennedy Ho

Éditions Glénat 2018 192 pages format 24 x 32 cm

Édition US Mogok, the valley of precious stones

livre inde mother india jb rabouan

MOTHER INDIA
RENCONTRES AU CŒUR DE L’INDE MULTIPLE

Texts & photographs Jean-Baptiste Rabouan
Éditions Glénat 2010 160 pages format 27 x 32 cm

livre ladakh chamans

LADAKH, DE LA TRANSE À L’EXTASE

Photographs Jean-Baptiste Rabouan
Texts Patrick Kaplanian
Peuples du Monde 1992 206 pages format 30 x 31 cm

roman inde gange

Novel

UN JARDIN SUR LE GANGE

 

Jean-Baptiste Rabouan

178 pages format poche 2012

livre cyanotype photographie

Alternative photography handbook
CYANOTYPE

Jean-Baptiste Rabouan
142 pages format 20 x 25 cm 2022

livre laines du monde dormeuil rabouan

À LA RECHERCHE DES LAINES PRÉCIEUSES

Photographs Jean-Baptiste Rabouan

Texts Dominic Dormeuil et JB Rabouan

Éditions Glénat 2015 176 pages format 28 x 33 cm

Édition US In search of the world’s finest wools

livre ladakh himalaya

LADAKH AU ROYAUME DE LA LAINE PASHMINA

Texts & photographs Jean-Baptiste Rabouan
Édition 2000 270 pages format 24 x 32 cm

roman histoire photographie

Short stories
ILS ÉTAIENT PHOTOGRAPHES
Histoire romancée de la photographie 1839 - 1918

Jean-Baptiste Rabouan
160 pages format poche 2019

roman inde himalaya

Novel

LE MIEL AMER DE L'HIMALAYA

Jean-Baptiste Rabouan

220 pages format poche 2016

livre procede ancien vandyke

Alternative photography handbook
LE PROCÉDÉ VANDYKE

Jean-Baptiste Rabouan
146 pages format 20 x 25 cm 2021

Version anglaise : The vandyke process

EXHIBITIONS

PLANÈTE B

Galerie Tour Saint Aubin Angers 2024.

MÉDITATIONS

Galerie Loire théâtre du dôme Saumur 2022.

LOIRE

Galerie Bridaine Paris 2021.

CONTEMPLATION

Galerie Bridaine Paris 2019.

QUÊTES

Galerie Glénat Paris 2018.

LE MONDE EN BLEU

Saumur 2017.

À LA RECHERCHE DES LAINES PRÉCIEUSES

Paris Galerie Glénat

Albertville Grand-Bivouac

Felletin Journées internationales de la laine Milan Salon du textile

Shanghaï Salon du textile.

FLEUVES SACRÉS DE L’INDE

Saumur 2016.

AUX SOURCES DE LA TRADITION NOMADE

Paris Espace TUI Odéon

Bordeaux Espace TUI Cathédrale

Toulouse Espace TUI

Strasbourg Espace TUI

Lille Espace TUI

MOTHER INDIA

Nuits Saint Georges 2013.

L’ART DE L’INSTANT

Nuits Saint Georges 2012.

CHÂTEAUX DU MONDE

Château de Langeais 2010

L’INDE CORPS ET ÂMES

Hotel Lutétia Paris 1996.

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