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I was living in Houston in 1986. In July, when Jean-Michel Jarre did his biggest concert on the west end of the city's center, my photographer friend George O Jackson Jr organized all the logistics to go and shoot it from the best viewpoint in Hermann Park. George O's photos where primed. Thanks to that, I go to meet Jean-Michel Jarre , as well as his beautiful wife Charlotte Rampling, in George O's magnificent apartment located the Parklane building's 24th floor overlooking Houston's skyline. Jean-Michel Jarre saw my photos and liked them too.
From there on, Jarre invited George O Jackson and I to shoot his following mega-concerts. The first one was in 1987 in Lyon at the occasion of the visit of Pope Jean-Paul II. The next one was in the London Docklands in 1989, under pouring rain. Then came Jarre's mega-concert Paris La Défense on the 14th of July 1990, which could be seen up to the Champs Elysées. Finally, Jean-Michel Jarre did the "Europe in Concerts" tour. It was a series of 15 smaller (but still great) concerts in different European cities. I shot the one in Brussels Heysel (Aug. 24, 1993) and in Versailles (Sept. 24, 1993 - but I lost the photos). This was the last concert I could find the time to shoot.
Recently, I digitized the photos of Jean-Michel Jarre's concerts that I could put my hands on. Unfortunately, many of them were lost during my moves or got damaged in storage. However, some are still OK - and here there are for you to enjoy!
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For Jean-Michel Jarre's concerts, I generally arrived two or three days earlier and had a full access badge. So during the rehearsals, I was on stage shooting photos of Jarre and his musicians. For the day of the concert, I had selected the most suitable location to shoot global views. I always used simultaneously two or three cameras with different lenses and two tripods. This was needed to get different view angles and because several second exposures are needed to properly capture the richness of the fireworks.
Many of my photos of Jean-Michel Jarre's concerts were used by press agencies (such as SIPA Press and Stills) and to illustrate some of Jean-Michel Jarre's books. Also, two of my photos made the Lyon's cover of his Houston-Lyon album. And recently, several of my photos were used to illustrate a Jean Michel Jarre´s biography book in Brasilian: "O Homem Que Faz a Luz Dançar" (The Man Who Makes the Light Dance) by Renato Mundt.
I shot my photos of Jean-Michel Jarre's concerts using Nikon EL cameras
with several lenses including Nikkor 20mm f4, Nikkor 50mm f1.8 and Nikkor 80-200 f4.
I mainly used Fujicolor Provia (100 ASA, sometimes pushed to 200 ASA),
as well as Ektachrome 320 ASA Tungsten (balanced for artificial light).
I welcome using or reproducing my photos under some conditions.
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