Jack Varlet

Jack Varlet is a photographer and videographer who graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in Arles. Since 1996, he has worked as a photojournalist for the magazine Pays Comtois, and then for Esprit Comtois from 2018 onwards. As a correspondent for the ANDIA photo agency, his images have been published in numerous national titles such as Le Point, L’Express, La Gazette des Communes, L’Usine Nouvelle, Libération, and La Croix. His unique perspective has also been put to use in event reporting, notably for the Novartis laboratory in Switzerland, a project he worked on for a decade. Passionate about publishing, Jack Varlet is the author or photographer of some forty books, including Les Jeux olympiques d’Albertville (The Albertville Olympic Games), Les apothicaireries de l’Est de la France (Apothecaries of Eastern France), L’absinthe: une si longue absence (Absinthe: Such a Long Absence), L’ordre de grandeur (The Order of Magnitude) dedicated to the Pyrenees National Park, La saline royale d’Arc-et-Senans, Sommets du Jura, and Cheval comtois, which won the Lucien Febvre Prize in 2020. His work has also moved into video, with a series of portraits of artists, including Sylvie Buatois, Marie-Jo Monnet, Lucie Lefauconnier, Guillaume Millot, Marc Paygnard, Roger Faindt, and Paul Gonez.