{{Short description|Swiss photographer and photojournalist (1934–2024)}} thumb|Jacot in the 1980s '''Monique Jacot''' (1934 – 6 August 2024) was a Swiss photographer and photojournalist.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-09-14|title=Monique Jacot Is The Pioneering Female Photographer You Don't Know, But Should|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/monique-jacot_n_6419480|date=6 January 2015|website=HuffPost UK}}</ref> Her work is included in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.<ref name="MFAH">{{Cite web |title=Works {{!}} Monique Jacot {{!}} People {{!}} The MFAH Collections |url=https://emuseum.mfah.org/people/22827/monique-jacot/objects |access-date=2024-10-29 |website=emuseum.mfah.org}}</ref>
==Early life and education== Jacot studied at the école des Arts et Métiers de Vevey from 1953 to 1956. Gertrude Fehr was one of her professors.<ref name="DICTHISTSWISS">{{cite web |title=Jacot, Monique |url=https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/fr/articles/048745/2007-02-05/ |website=hls-dhs-dss.ch |language=fr}}</ref><ref name="24HeuresCH">{{cite web |last1=Jaunin |first1=Françoise |title=Militante et poète |url=http://journal.24heures.ch/archives/portrait/militante-poete-2009-09-02 |website=24 heures}}</ref>
==Career== Jacot was among the first women photojournalists.<ref name="24HeuresCH" /> She travelled to Yemen frequently in the 1980s, and provided reporting for numerous noted magazines and newspapers, including ''Camera'', ''Elle'', ''L'Illustré'', ''Schweizer Illustrierte'', ''Du'', ''Réalités'', and ''Vogue Paris''.<ref name="RTAS2">{{cite web |title=Monique Jacot |url=https://www.rts.ch/archives/tv/culture/voix-au-chapitre/3478938-monique-jacot.html |website=rts.ch |language=fr |date=3 February 1975}}</ref> Àlso in the 1980s, Jacot published several works on the conditions faced by women: ''Femmes de la terre'' in 1989, on the subject of Swiss women working in agriculture,<ref name="HYPERProfile" /> ''Printemps de femmes'' in 1994 and ''Cadences : l'usine au féminin'' in 1999.<ref name="DICTHISTSWISS" /><ref name="24HeuresCH" /> During her career she was a staff photographer for the World Health Organization.<ref name="HYPERProfile">{{cite web |last1=Friedman |first1=Julia |title=A Woman Who Wielded a Camera Like a Brush |url=https://hyperallergic.com/169291/a-woman-who-wielded-a-camera-like-a-brush/ |website=Hyperallergic |date=22 December 2014}}</ref>
Jacot died on 6 August 2024, at the age of 89.<ref>{{cite news |title=Addio a Monique Jacot |url=https://www.rsi.ch/cultura/arte/Addio-a-Monique-Jacot--2223516.html |access-date=8 August 2024 |publisher=RSI |date=8 August 2024}}</ref>
==Publications== *''Femmes de la terre'' (1989)<ref name="HYPERProfile" /> *''Printemps de femmes'' (1994)<ref name="DICTHISTSWISS" /><ref name="24HeuresCH" /> *''Cadences : l'usine au féminin'' (1999)<ref name="DICTHISTSWISS" /><ref name="24HeuresCH" />
==Awards== * 1974: Federal prize for Applied Arts<ref name="leTemps2">{{cite web |title=De l'Arabie heureuse, trésors de voyages |url=https://www.letemps.ch/culture/larabie-heureuse-tresors-voyages |website=Le Temps |language=fr |date=4 December 2019}}</ref> * 2005: Grand prize in photography from the Fondation vaudoise pour la culture<ref name="FVPCBio">{{cite web |title=Fondation vaudoise pour la culture |url=http://www.fvpc.ch/cms/index.php/component/k2/item/50-grand-prix-2005 |website=www.fvpc.ch}}</ref> * 2020: Grand Prize in Design, on the recommendation of the Swiss Design Commission<ref name="SWISSGPDESIGN">{{cite web |title=Grand Prix Design 2020 pour Ida Gut, Monique Jacot et Kueng Caputo |url=https://www.rts.ch/info/culture/11447533-grand-prix-design-2020-pour-ida-gut-monique-jacot-et-kueng-caputo.html |website=rts.ch |language=fr |date=3 July 2020}}</ref><ref name="GPDESGIN2">{{cite web |title=Monique Jacot, de l'expérimentation et des plumes |url=https://www.letemps.ch/culture/monique-jacot-lexperimentation-plumes |website=Le Temps |language=fr |date=14 August 2020}}</ref>
==Collections== Jacot's work is included in the following permanent collection: *Museum of Fine Arts Houston: 6 prints (as of 20 October 2024)<ref name="MFAH"/>
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