<p><strong>Jean-Christian Bourcart</strong> is a french photographer and a filmmaker who has been living in New York since 1997. In parallel with a career in photojournalism, he shows his work in galleries and museums around the world. Over the years, his work has taken various forms, but people have always been the focus of his concern. How can we approach the Other? What can we do in common? What can we share?<br />Bourcart has been the recipient of the Nadar Prize in 2011, the Niepce Prize in 2010, the Prix du Jeu de Paume in 2006 the Gilles Dusein Prize in 1999, The World Press Award in 1991. He published six photographic books, and directed two feature movies. His work has been collected by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Chrysler Museum of the Art, Norfolk the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Genève, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, and the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris. He was a recipient of grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Centre National des Arts Plastiques, and the Villa Medicis.<br /><br /></p>