STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY BY JACQUES JANGOUX
Stock photographs of tropical nature and cultures, with emphasis on Latin America and AfricA.






MY PROFILE

I photograph native cultures and nature in tropical countries (Latin America, Africa, some Asia). I am careful to correctly identify photographs with scientific name whenever relevant and possible, consulting a specialist if necessary.

Some of my key concerns are the preservation of cultural and of natural diversity. I hope that my photography, used mainly in educational media, will contribute toward that goal. More recently my preoccupations have extended to global warming and climate change.

My personal goals are to enjoy nature and contact with local people and cultures, photograph what I enjoy, and selling it by necessity (to fulfill the first two goals, and to sustain my family). My specialty is to travel to remote, little known places not yet affected by the stressful pace of modern life.

Currently I photograph the Cerrado (savannas) and the rural people (small farmers, cowboys) of the Central Brazil Highlands. I photographed mostly in Africa and in Latin America, with one trip in Malaysian Borneo. I emphasize the image collections: Tropical ecology concepts, processes;  Rainforest; Babies, children, teenagers; Tourist / travel destinations ; Brazilian economy; Environment, biodiversity; Indian tribes; Religion, Colonial churches, Shamanism, Social Issues.

I was born in Belgium. I started traveling extensively in Africa, then in Latin America. I lived a few years in the United States (Los angeles and New York), a couple of years in Venezuela in the Guiana Highlands, photographing Indian tribes and Angel Falls and, since 1978, I live in Belém at the mouth of the Amazon in Brazil, taking pictures mostly of the rainforest, also of the savannas, tourist destinations, aspects of the economy.

Other interests are growing plants collected during my trips, mostly from the rainforests and savannas; jazz, especially the period that started at Minton´s Playhouse in Harlem in 1941, when Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie and others created a form of jazz initially called bebop that had its apogee in the fifties and continued into the sixties, best known, perhaps, by the work of Miles Davis; and automobile racing which I photographed during its golden age (the years of Jim Clark) from 1967 until 1971 (Formula 1, Le Mans, CAN AM) and that now I follow as a TV spectator; now I photograph the Rally dos Sertoes in Brazil.