Jean then goes to California for 3 years, as a reporter and photographer for "Editions de France". He discovers the "off-road" scene before returning to fashion in Los Angeles, where the light is so unique, working for local publications. He does numerous shootings for young actresses' portfolios in Hollywood studios.
 

In 1987, he flies to Bora Bora (French Polynesia) and becomes the news correspondent for "Les Nouvelles de Tahiti" where he interviews and photographs local politicians, often daring, as well as creates fashion documentaries in the “islands under the wind”. He returns to Paris and turns to advertising, more precisely merchandising where he conceives and builds campaigns for pharmaceutical and cosmetic brands.
 

Jean needs to leave Paris to find a more creative and colorful technical media which he finds in New York, where he can focus on his passion:  photography. In Woodstock, he discovers wax and develops an expertise in mixed media combining photography and paint where the bright colored pigments added to melted wax allow him to transcend the banality of every day. For Jean, New York means intensity and light, where the images are intimately bound and bring imagination to a world often too real.

Today Jean navigates between New York,  Dakar and France.

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