Bouvet Eric
Eric Bouvet was born in Paris in 1961.
After studying graphic arts and industries at the École Estienne in Paris, he joined the prestigious Agence Gamma as a photographer in 1981.
From 1990, he worked on his own subjects as a freelancer. For four decades, he traveled the world and covered most of the conflicts that changed the course of history: Afghanistan, Albania, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Iran, Ireland, Israel-Palestine, Kuwait, Kurdistan, Lebanon, Libya, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Suriname, Chechnya, Ukraine, Yugoslavia.
He will witness many international events: Omeyra in Colombia, Tien An Men, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the break-up of the USSR, the Velvet Revolution in Prague, the Olympic Games in Seoul, the funeral of Khomeini and of Rajiv Gandhi, the liberation of Mandela, the Arab revolutions, etc…
He is the only journalist to have worked with Russian commandos. From this unpublished report, carried out in Chechnya in 1995, he will write a book which will be used to create a play: “Jusqu’au bout”.
His reports are published in the biggest international magazines: Time, Life, Newsweek, Paris-Match, Sunday-Time Magazine, Stern, New-York Times, Der Spiegel, Geo, Figaro Magazine…
For several years, he has turned to more documentary photography, more contemporary in inspiration. In 2017, he began with the agreement of the Ministry of Culture, a ten-year long societal subject on the meaning of being French.
Her work in the first three months of the war in Ukraine allowed for the broadcast on youtube and the networks of “sonoramas”, her voice on an image slideshow at the end of each day. Some have been seen and listened to over thirty thousand times. Screened at the Rencontres d’Arles, at the Visa d’or in Perpignan, at the Planches contactes festival in Deauville
Since 2000, he has created workshops within the Rencontres d’Arles, at the CFJ, as well as in various French and foreign festivals. The transmission of his profession and the sharing of his experience are part of his total commitment to the 8th art.
This commitment has been repeatedly rewarded with national and international prizes: two Visas d’or, five World Press, the Paris Match prize, the war correspondent’s prize, the Bayeux Public prize.
Married for 36
years, Eric Bouvet has two children aged 28 and 33.
Books :
« Femmes du Rwanda » Éditions Catleya (1999)
« La dernière mine » Éditions La Martinière (2004)
« Jusqu’au bout » Éditions The Viewer (2014)
« L’Orchestre à l’oeuvre » Édition l’oeil d’Or (2018)
« 40 ans » Auto-édition (2021)
« Journal d’Ukraine » Auto-édition (2022)
« Elevations » Editions Photosynthèses ( 2023)
