Born in 1934 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Lives and works in Switzerland.

The oeuvre that Monique Jacot has created in the course of the past sixty years is marked by an empathetic signature, testifying to her beginnings in humanist photography. In 1956, upon graduating from the Ecole des arts et métiers in Vevey, where she studied under the German photographer Gertrude Fehr, Jacot immediately offered her work to the press. At the time, photojournalism had become all the rage, inspiring photographers to leave their studios and set out to discover the world outside. Having published her first photographs in La Gazette Littéraire, French Switzerland’s main outlet for cultural information at the time, she set out for Zurich, where she established excellent contact with the German press. Over the next three decades, she worked for newspapers and magazines both at home and abroad, including Die Woche, Schweizer Illustrierte, Du, Camera, Réalités, Time and Geo. Although professional photography was still dominated by men in those days, she rapidly acquired mandates of her own, albeit usually on women’s issues. She worked closely with several publications for women, such as Annabelle and Femina in Switzerland, and Vogue and ELLE in France.

Jacots’ works are represented in international collections including the Fotostiftung Schweiz; Elysée, Lausanne, Schweiz; Musée Jenisch, Vevey, Schweiz: Museum of Fine Arts Houston, USA, among others.