Catch the beauty in bad weather Bashny.Net

Christophe Jacrot is one of the most famous and mysterious at the same time photographers of our time. His nickname - "Rain Man." Because, no matter where he was, his camera captures only one thing - bad weather, bad weather elements. About Jacrot little is known, as he prefers to talk about themselves with their photo works.
He lives in Paris, from which, in fact, began his career. To be more precise with a series of photographs "Paris in the Rain", which appeared very spontaneously and unexpectedly for the photographer. One travel guide Christophe made an order for solar photo of Paris. But at that time the city was not up to the sun - "he cried." As a result, the order podvis and rain, meanwhile, did not stop.
Why not? - Jacrot thought, took the camera and went to Paris to shoot in the rain. So there was a series of luxury, which brought him fame. After all, it was just incredible success - all the newspapers were talking about talent and his amazing Jacrot rain, and exhibited at the gallery of his work. Jacrot gave himself on the strength of a couple of interviews to do, and went on: in Hong Kong, Chicago, New York ... After bad weather.

We wording often remember with emotion that September day in 2007, when we received the package, entitled "Paris in the Rain." Behind this inconspicuous name hid a lot of work, something between a humanistic and piktorealisticheskoy schools, in which the photographer as opened one after the other pitfalls of bad weather, up to the subtleties, and it seemed like it was his amusing. Sender Name - Christophe Jacrot - nothing to our services, but we will not hesitate offered him a portfolio page CHASSEUR D'IMAGES.

Hong Kong in the rain - a continuation of Paris in the rain. What attracted me to Gonkong- so it's even more crazy urban world, drowning in these tropical storms. Or maybe it just had ambitions - Rod reveal almost neizmestnuyu in such a situation, and to awaken an understanding of the romantic nature of the rain.

Almost empty streets where colorful signs are reflected in the numerous puddles, shaggy sky is refracted through the jets on the glass, wet torotuarah slip shoes and umbrellas colored mist dissolved in the urban landscape ... The whole poetry, however, requires almost military training: waterproof bag protects the unit and to look at the time or on a satellite map of the city, as it should have to hide from the omnipresent water. There is no doubt that these works are exhibited in the Galerie de l'Europe, deserve this applause. - It was a review of the journal VERSION FEMINA.