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Native of Lausanne and born in 1992 in Switzerland, Jacques Brun began a BA of photography at ECAL and graduated in 2015. He explores the connection with everyday life, memories, and dreams. He creates non narrative storylines: collections that could combine different typologies of images to express metaphoric journeys looking for a lost paradise—an Eden. His work is a story on the border of two worlds: the reality inspired by the ordinary and the imaginary world constructed on common myths. His work is published in several magazines such as T Mag, vogue, Le Monde, Vanity Fair, and AD. Since 2017 he has lived and worked in Paris as an artist and a commercial photographer.
In what ways does nature inspire or inform your work?
Nature is the essence of my work. I’m looking for a lost paradise, an Eden. It is a quest of beauty where I explore ways to break constructed boundaries between humans and nature.
What does it mean to you to be part of a thriving ecosystem?
The daily awareness of being part of an ecosystem melts my ego. It is still there, but diluted in an ocean. For me, an ecosystem is the realization of every being with its own singularity united around the same desire to exist.
