Aged 15, Christophe Jacrot was gifted a small camera. Enthused, he went to the basement, set up a darkroom and set about his ambition to achieve strong photographs. Three years later he put the camera away and after a short but successful foray into filmmaking, changed direction to a career in real estate. That early photographic seed had embedded itself deep into Jacrot and aged 45 it re-germinated.
He took a four-month course in photojournalism then landed a job with a travel firm seeking 600 sunny photos of Paris. He sold 400 despite the dreary weather that spring. Rejecting the sun in the City of Light, he relentlessly photographed Paris in the rain, culminating in his book(Editions du Chêne, 17 September 2008). Fifteen photos of Paris in the rain sold out at an exhibition at the Lucernaire arthouse
