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Sabine Jaccard (b. 1971, Paris suburbs, France) is a French and Swiss contemporary photographer based between Paris and Annecy, whose practice is anchored in the technical precision and conceptual rigor of black-and-white film photography. Her academic formation includes a Master's degree in English literature with distinction, centered on Shakespeare, and a Master's degree in French as a Foreign Language, both awarded by the Sorbonne University. Jaccard's artistic sensibility and documentary acuity were further shaped through her formative training with the distinguished Malagasy photographer Pierrot Men (2000–2002), an experience that established the methodological foundations of her analog practice.
 

Jaccard's oeuvre is defined by a sustained investigation into the symbolic, spiritual, and phenomenological dimensions of water, developed through years of street photography across diverse global terrains. Her practice subsequently broadened into photojournalism, integrating portraiture, interviews, and socio-cultural analysis to examine the lived realities of historically marginalized and racialized communities. Major commissions—including projects in Madagascar and Cuba, visual studies on the Olympic and Paralympic arenas in Paris, and inquiries into the representation of racial others within the French social landscape—reveal an artist deeply attentive to the ethical, aesthetic, and epistemic stakes of photographic representation. Her images are characterized by compositional restraint, tonal sophistication, and psychological nuance, engaging questions of identity, visibility, and social belonging.
 

Sabine Jaccard has exhibited at the French Cultural Centre Albert Camus in Antananarivo; Münster Club in Luxembourg City; Art Gallery Axelle in Soho, New York; Art Gallery Cité du Temps in Geneva; and in the museums of Château de Voltaire and Château de Bussy-Rabutin in France. She has participated in the Villa Albertine contest in the United States and the Bicentenary of Photography contest organized by the French Ministry of Culture. Her works form part of significant private collections, including those assembled by architect Camille Chaumartin. Jaccard's principal series—Water Theatre, Humanity Beyond Colour, The French from Here and There, and Humanity expressed, the Black condition—constitute a rigorous and coherent corpus that affirms her position within contemporary photographic discourse.