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The lotus flower rising out of mud and dirt is a powerful symbol associated with spiritual awakening in Eastern cultures. The dark, putrid mud is the fertile ground from which...
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2019 Salle Jean Jaurès. Vauvert, Gard 2018 Maison de Victor Hugo, Place des Vosges, Paris 2018 Chelsea Arts Club, Chelsea, London 2018...
ChromaLuxe printing is a high-end printing technique that is both of archival quality and minimises damage, it uses a process called ‘dye sublimation’ which fuses images...
This lavish book evokes the fascinating story of the exile of Victor Hugo (1802–85), who lived fifteen consecutive years on the British island of Guernsey (1855–70) before...
My mother was a friend of Augustus John, a long-time member of the Chelsea Arts Club, and somehow I believed that one had to wear old corduroy jackets smeared with oil paint...
During my last visit to Venice I went out at dawn one morning to photograph the Grand Canal. As the first gleams of the rising sun illuminated the Ponte dell’Academia,...
After studying at Montpellier and Marseille art schools Jean Baptiste worked in publishing while pursuing a career that combined both photography and painting. The advent...
“Hauteville House”, Victor Hugo’s magical retreat in Guernsey Victor Hugo was the greatest French writer, dramaturge and poet of the 19th century, he was a talented...
Jean Baptiste Hugo was born in the Languedoc region of the South of France and was raised with his brother and five sisters in the family home at Lunel, near Montpellier....