Monique Jacot

Monique Jacot (born 1934) is a Swiss photographer and photojournalist.[1]

Jacot in the 1980s

Early life

Jacot studied at the école des Arts et Métiers de Vevey from 1953 to 1956. Gertrude Fehr was one of her professors.[2][3]

Career

Jacot was among the first women photojournalists.[3]

She travelled to Yemen frequently in the 1980s, and provided reporting for numerous noted magazines and newspapers, including Camera (magazine), Elle, L'Illustré, Schweizer Illustrierte, Du, Réalités, and Vogue Paris.[4]

Àlso in the 1980s, Jacot published several works on the conditions faced by women: Femmes de la terre in 1989, on the subject of Swiss women working in agriculture,[5] Printemps de femmes in 1994 and Cadences : l'usine au féminin in 1999.[2][3]

During her career she was a staff photographer for the World Health Organization.[5]

Her work is included in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.[6]

Awards
  • 1974: Federal prize for Applied Arts[7]
  • 2005: Grand prize in photography from the Fondation vaudoise pour la culture.[8]
  • 2020: Grand Prize in Design, on the recommendation of the Swiss Design Commission[9][10]

References
  1. "Monique Jacot Is The Pioneering Female Photographer You Don't Know, But Should". HuffPost UK. 6 January 2015. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
  2. "Jacot, Monique". hls-dhs-dss.ch (in French).
  3. Jaunin, Françoise. "Militante et poète". 24heures.ch.
  4. "Monique Jacot". rts.ch (in French). 3 February 1975.
  5. Friedman, Julia (22 December 2014). "A Woman Who Wielded a Camera Like a Brush". Hyperallergic.
  6. "Monique Jacot: Maternité de Norques". mfah.org.
  7. "De l'Arabie heureuse, trésors de voyages". Le Temps (in French). 4 December 2019.
  8. "Fondation vaudoise pour la culture". www.fvpc.ch.
  9. "Grand Prix Design 2020 pour Ida Gut, Monique Jacot et Kueng Caputo". rts.ch (in French). 3 July 2020.
  10. "Monique Jacot, de l'expérimentation et des plumes". Le Temps (in French). 14 August 2020.


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