About
About
About
In 1977, after a childhood spent in Ivory Coast, Patrice Guéritot arrived in France at the age of 16.
During his first years, driven by the discovery of Africa, he became aware of his passion for photography and his desire to direct his own photo shoots.
In 1980, he joined the University of Orsay, where he obtained a DEUG in animal biology with an option in scientific photography. He then trained in advertising photography at the Gobelins School in Paris and, in 1983, spent a year photo-reporting for SIRPA (Press Service of the Ministry of the Armed Forces).
For more than twenty years he devoted himself to the world of women's and children's magazines, as well as advertising.
From 2005, as part of a personal research project, he joined Mallock, a friend and artist, to prepare a series of exhibitions together.
Passionate about horses from the age of seven, involved in many disciplines such as dressage and show jumping, he was brought to competition.
His love of horse riding showed in many forms, from mountain rides to fierce competition through polo… Instinctively, this pushed him to photograph horses in their different worlds: nature, circus, races, fantasias, various competitions (dressage) and polo.
In order to magnify these exceptional stallions, he created a concept and a photo studio to obtain his own lights and to decide the staging. He can obviously recreate this particular environment, with a black background, anywhere on the planet, regardless of surface constraints.