A JOUR (2000)
From the 1950s through to the 1980s Monique Jacot worked for a series of prominent fashion and women’s magazines, including Elle and Vogue. In 1989 she began her magnum opus, a photographic triptych on the woman as farm wife, feminist and factory worker, on which she worked for ten years. The photographs which she made in 2000 during a stay in a guest studio in Egypt are a good example of her style. Jacot is a pictorial photographer, which is to say that her work is related to paint- ing. She is chiefly in search of light and beauty, and finds the image more important than the story. In A JOUR she is concerned with water of vital importance for Egypt, the largest part of which is desert.
