Jean-François Campos was born in Aix-en-Provence in 1966. He embarked on his career as a photographer in 1988 during a visit to Berlin. He continued this photo report in 1989, before, during and after the fall of the Berlin wall and his work was shown in the "Berlin à coeur ouvert" exhibition at the FNAC in 1990.
The same year, he won two prizes, from the Fondation Angnénieux and the Biennale des jeunes créateurs de l’Europe de la méditerranée. His work was shown in the "Vieille Charité" in the centre of Marseille and the "Espace photographique" in Paris.
From 1990 to 1993, he was a member of Agence Editing. In 1991, he was commissioned by the Marseille public transport department to do a photo report on life beside the sea, which was shown in 1992. The same year, he embarked on a long-term contract with the newspaper Libération, which continued until 1996.
In this capacity, he photographed Jacques Chirac during the seven months of the presidential campaign, and more recently, the critical situation of Rwandan refugees in Northern Zaire.
He joined Agence VU in July 1995 when he was covering the Avignon Festival, and a few weeks later his photographs of Jacques Chirac’s campaign were exhibited at the International Festival of Photo-journalism in Perpignan.
In 1996, he was awarded the World Press Photo Foundation Masterclass prize for his work with Libération, and also the Centre National de la Photographie (French Photography Centre) Moins Trente (Under Thirty) prize.
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