Jean Guichard's Lighthouses
Jean Guichard is a prolific French photographer known for his lighthouse photos. His best-known photo is “Phares dans la Tempete, la Jument,” a dramatic view of a lighthouse engulfed in a huge wave, with the keeper looking out from the doorway. Jean Guichard was born on April 28, 1952 in Paris, France. During his childhood, he spent much of his free time with his grandparents in the Morbihan department in Brittany, near the coast where he would later take his lighthouse photos. Guichard joined the Navy in 1971, sailing the Atlantic and Arctic oceans aboard the Commandant Bourdais. While in Greenland with the Navy, he purchased his first Nikon, financed by photos that he sold to the crew. After his Navy service, he worked for the Department of Commerce, documenting the travels of the minister of the department. From 1977 to 1984, he worked as a photojournalist for the Sygma agency. During these years he covered political personalities, including Jacques Chirac,
