:Draft:Frederic Mouchet

He started photojournalism in 1987 during a trip to Senegal and Gambia among the Dyula people of Casamance.

In the years that followed, he kept learning photography and became a regular contributor to Grands Reportages in 1998. He shot stories for the magazine, mostly in Asia, America, and Africa.

From 2005 to 2008 he produced various reports about Hong Kong, Beijing during the pre- Olympic years, the emergence of tourism in China, the myth of Shangri-La, the monastic city of Labrang and the relationship of the Chinese people with religion.

In 2013 he became a regular contributor to GEO (magazine). Having developed an interest in indigenous peoples and their culture, he photographed the Aboriginal people of Australia, the Maori people of New Zealand, the Kanak people of New Caledonia and the Ainu people of Japan among others.

In 2015 he published a book with the Australian academic Noelene Bloomfield, L'Australie des explorateurs français (The Australia of the French Explorers) https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/7125724, retracing the passage of the six major French exploration missions on the Australian coast in the 18th and 19th centuries https://issuu.com/baranes/docs/l_australie_des_explorateurs_franc_. He created a parallel between his contemporary photographs and drawings made by naturalist artists of these expeditions in those places more than two centuries ago.

In 2016 he won the award Prix Jules Ducros-Aubert of the Société de Géographie for his photographic work on the French explorers https://www.cfdagroup.com/communication/CP_Soc_Geo_Prix_2016.pdf.

In the same year, the Australian state of South Australia organised an exhibition of his photographs at the State Library of South Australiahttps://www.sbs.com.au/language/french/en/podcast-episode/frederic-mouchet-the-south-australia-of-the-french-explorers-photographic-exhibition/cvst3agn4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2lr5K9F278

In 2019 he published a new book, Australie aborigène, Walkabout (Aboriginal Australia, Walkabout) https://www.glenat.com/beaux-livres-voyage-glenat-livres/australie-aborigene-9782344032329 portraying the age-old bond between Indigenous Australians and their land. For his research, Frederic spent several months in communities in the North of the country (Yolngu and others) with his wife (co-author of the texts) https://www.glenat.com/auteurs/sandrine-mouchet.

During the major wildfires in Australia in early 2020, Frederic was invited on the French TV program 28 minutes on Arte channel, the France Inter and TV5Monde program La Librairie Francophonehttps://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/la-librairie-francophone/didier-decoin-sami-tchak-patricia-vergauwen-et-francis-van-de-woestyne-frederic-et-sandrine-mouchet-4179592, as well as the French international radio RFI to discuss the Aboriginal people's knowledge on ways to prevent devastating fires.

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|last1 = Mouchet

|first1 = Frederic

|last2 = Bloomfield

|first2 = Noelene

|date = 2015

|title = L'Australie des explorateurs français (The Australia of the French Explorers)

|language = bilingual french and english

|publisher = Somogy éditions d'arts

|isbn = 978-2-7572-0994-3

}}

• {{cite book

|last1 = Mouchet

|first1 = Frederic

|last2 = Mouchet

|first2 = Sandrine

|date = 2019

|title = Australie Aborigène, Walkabout

|language = french

|publisher = Glénat

|isbn = 978-2-344-03232-9

}}

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• [https://www.fredericmouchet.com Official Website]

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