Jean-Marc Carisse

Jean-Marc Carisse is an award winning Canadian photojournalist. Jean-Marc Carisse has photographed the political, cultural and social scenes in Ottawa and around the world for over 40 years, including stints as official photographer serving the Prime Minister's Office (Trudeau, Turner and Chrétien) and as a freelancer. His photographs have appeared on many covers and pages of history and political books (including his own "Privileged Access w/ Trudeau, Turner & Chrétien" Warwick Publ. 2000), magazines including Time, Paris Match and Maclean's, as well as documentaries and biographies. He has also photographed consecutive Prime Ministers from Pierre Elliott Trudeau to Justin Trudeau, US Presidents from Ford to Obama and a large number of world leaders. Carisse captured many performers, comedians, singers, artists, actors, icons and heroes, on stage and off, formally and informally, at home and around the world. These include President Nelson Mandela, Bob Dylan, Frank Sinatra, Jerry Lewis, Princesses Diana and Kate, Pope John Paul II, Queen Elizabeth II, Al Pacino, Rudolf Nureyev, Tom Waits, Fidel Castro, Bob Hope, Yousuf Karsh, the Dalai Lama, and Mother Teresa, to name a few. Past exhibits include: "My Trudeau Years", "The Charter. It’s Ours. It’s Us.", "Chasing The Beat", "On The World Stage", and "Jazz & Blues Seen".
He graduated with a BA in Visual Arts from the University of Ottawa. Carisse has donated approximately 69,000 negatives several years ago to the National Archives of Canada and his P.M. Jean Chrétien collection (approximately 400,000 negatives) was donated in 2005.
Mr. Carisse's first book, a coffee-table photo book titled Privileged Access with Trudeau, Turner and Chrétien, was voted "best political book of the year" by The Hill Times. It contains hundreds of photographs featuring his shadowing of the three prime ministers.
Many of Carisse's photos of Mother Teresa appear inside the 2008 book Remembering Mother Teresa.
Carisse works at Carisse Studio Café and Photography Gallery at 274 Elgin St., in Ottawa, Canada.

• Jean-Marc Carisse, Mark S. Bell (2000), Privileged Access with Trudeau, Turner and Chrétien, Warwick Publishing, 250 pages, ISBN 1-894020-66-9