Jacques Beneich

Brown Sugar

2016

Jacques Beneich is an ever renewed exploration of his passion for fashion photography, black and white movies and music, re-visited with an explosion of colors as a tribute to life. While working as a fashion photographer with the most well known magazines and companies, Beneich started working as a portraitist. In 1989, he signed one of the most famous series of portraits of some of the greatest jazz and blues musicians, including Miles Davis, Fats Domino, James Brown, Dizzy Gillespie and many more. Beneich’s artwork is made of all these stories, he was able to capture through an exceptional talent for elegance, generosity and respect of the people he works with. He loves them and his artwork is the reflection of this long love story. His artwork has extended to digital compositions developed from his photographs, into series based upon his favorites themes of music, fashion, portrait, travel and some of his most famous pieces.