After studying photography and audiovisual arts at the University of Aix-Marseille (1981-1983), Jean-Francois Jaussaud worked as an assistant in various photography studios in Paris, including Studio Daguerre and Pin-up Studio, before serving as the personal assistant to photographer Dominique Issermann.
In 1987, he began his career as a freelance photographer, specializing in interior architecture and portraiture. He quickly became sought after by prestigious magazines such as Vogue, Elle, Architectural Digest, The New York Times Magazine, The World of Interiors, and Marie Claire for photography assignments. During the 1990s, he started producing his own stories on interiors and portraits, which led to a growing interest in artists. He began visiting their studios and, from that period, started proposing complete features directly to magazines, sometimes accompanied by texts he commissioned from writers.
In 1994, he met artist Louise Bourgeois in her studio and proposed working on her personal environment for the magazine Connaissance des Arts. This encounter marked the beginning of a long professional and personal relationship with Louise Bourgeois, who invited him to "come back whenever he wished," which he did for 11 years.
In recent years, Jaussaud has collaborated with creators in fields as diverse as art, design, fashion, architecture, and decoration. Since 2012 he has held exhibitions at Gallery Simon Studer Art (April, 2012), Gallery Elizabeth Royer Paris (October, 2015), Gallery Ephemere, Paris (November 2015), Gallery Ormond, Geneve (June-July, 2016), and Galerie Atelier Jespers, Brussels (September, 2016), Hangar Photo Art Center, Brussels (April-June 2022)—where his work became part of the permanent collection—, and Podgorny Robinson Gallery, London (May, 2022).
He has published over 10 books, some of which have become iconic, such as his most recent book Louise Bourgeois: Femme Maison came out in October 2019. Published to great acclaim, it is comprised of intimate portraits of the artist Jaussuad took over the last decade of her life.
