My name is Jean Xavier and I would like to first express my warmest thanks to you for visiting my site. My journey as a photographer started in 1997 in Carcassonne, France, where I was first introduced to print photography. At quite an early stage in the learning process, and with the help of previous training in drawing and painting, as well as in fashion design and costume, I felt confident in my composition and choice of subject matters; but I still was not sure of my ability at capturing light and using it so as to create ambience work that would be a signature style. Despite my doubts about my technical skills, I was fully aware that I had just been introduced to a medium that was endless in its possibilities.

After a first successful group exhibit where I had decided to show my experimental work on human navels, I turned to acting/directing school where my social skills and fascination for people blossomed. Meeting new people, and getting to know other cultures, other ways of thoughts, and different perspectives on life prompted me to resume photography. In 2001, after a three-year hiatus during which I seldom shot anything or anyone, I embarked upon the discovery of digital photography, biased as I was, like most people before a new technique, that it would not be as convincing as print. I was to be proved wrong.

Lately, I have been photographing men, women and inanimate objects equally, in an attempt to create depth and ambience and to stretch the spectator's vision of people and things. My current themes include transitional places, intimate vs. public settings and series. To me, photography is a dialogue between the model and the photographer, and my goal as an artist is to draw a bridge between these two sensitivities/two worlds/two stories and to reconcile these parallel destinies forever through the furtive magic of a shot.