Jean-Baptiste Mondino

French born Jean-Baptiste Mondino is an industry renowned fashion photographer and music video director currently residing in Paris. He begins his career, in 1970, for Publicis, collaborating with Façade.

He gradually went to photography, and realized some albums art covers.
As a reminder of the importance of these album art in his work, recently, in 2012, he realized the Sebastian album art, and the Love Songs’ one, the Vanessa Paradis’ album. Evolving to the fashion spheres of photography, he started his video clip director career. His extensive portfolio of works includes videos for artists such as David Bowie, Björk and Les Rita Mitsouko. His promo for Don Henley’s The Boys of Summer won multiple MTV awards in 1986, picking up ‘Best Video’, ’Best Art Direction’ and ‘Best Cinematography’.

In 1989 he founded his own production company through which he went on to direct videos for Sting, Madonna, Lenny Kravitz, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Vanessa Paradis among others, often working with the cinematographer Pascal Lebègue.

He has been awarded four times by “Les Victoires de la Musique”, for his fine video clips.

Today he is widely recognized within the fashion and photography industries for his stunning portraits and commercial campaigns.

From a commercial aspect, in his video director carrier, he has worked with huge brands such Nike, Gaultier and Calvin Klein. He has also directed alluring spots for Dolce & Gabbana, Dior, and Cacharel - to name a few.

He is now also represented by the newly formed Iconoclast Image, for his print campaigns. His latest commercial, for Dior, “J’adore”, a renewal of a classic Dior commercial, starring Charlize Theron, made famous the sentence, “C’est ça, que j’adore”. He also recently work The One, of Dolce & Gabbana, on two commercials: The One Scarlett, starring Scarlett Johansson, and The One Matthew with the great Matthew McConaughey.