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Jean Michel Clajot

Jean Michel Clajot

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Profession: Photographer
Location: Brussels , Belgium
Home base: Belgium, Brussels
URL: http://www.jmclajot.net
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Languages spoken: French, English
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Last login: 24 days ago
Member since: 24 Jul 2006 07:07

About

I am a freelance photographer based in Brussels, Belgium.
I am represented by the COSMOS Photo Agency in Paris, France for worldwide distribution excluding the US and North America.
For North American sales please contact Aurora Photos (Portland, USA).

The gallery has recent work from personal projects and features.

http://www.digitalrailroad.net/jmclajot

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Jean Michel Clajot. Child Work in Africa The Sunday Times Magazine, pp. 41. [none], Apr 22 2008.
Jean Michel Clajot. Scarification in Africa BBC's The World, [none], Jan 5 2008.
Jean Michel Clajot. "Scarification " CHOC, pp. 8. [none], Dec 6 2007.
Jean Michel Clajot. "Scarification in Africa" Nikon Pro Magazine, [none], Aug 13 2007.
Jean Michel Clajot. A Prescription for Change RSA Journal, pp. pp. 48 - 49. [none], Jun 27 2007.
Jean Michel Clajot. "Enjeux-Internationaux" Enjeux-Internationaux, pp. PP 2 3 4 5. [none], Jul 24 2006.
Jean Michel Clajot. La Libre Match La Libre Match, pp. Cover + Inside. [none], Jul 13 2006.

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Digital Railroad Gallery



Recent Post

New Book Released :"Scarification"

I am pleased to announce that after many trips over a 3 years period and then 6 months in production, my first book will be
Available on August 2008.

Best Regards,

Jean-Michel

26×23 cm, 88 pages. French – English Text.

The practice of scarification seems to be as old as civilisation itself.
Anthropologists have discovered that it was the Australian Aborigines who developed it to its present form and adapted it to mark the rites of passage to adulthood. Such initiation ceremonies were essential to the functioning of Aboriginal society because they enabled each individual to know his or her place and role in that society.
Scarification spread to other cultures with varying degrees of success. Doctors in the ancient and mediaeval worlds were inspired by it to develop bleeding techniques. Later, it would be used to treat skin diseases such as rosacea.
Today, in Europe and in the United States, scarification is associated with the pathological condition called self-mutilation. Adolescents scarify themselves to “drive out” their fears and distress or to replace emotional pain with (more bearable) physical pain, or to mark their membership of a gang or other group.
Nowadays, scarification has only retained its original function, as practised by the Aborigines, in a few parts of the world, such as West Africa, especially in Northern Benin, where around forty tribes still practise it for various reasons, of which one is the most important: to tell us more about those who bear the scars.

http://www.jmclajot.net/BuyBook.html

20 Aug 2008 20:08 | 0 replies

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