He was born in 1973 in South of France near Marseille and grew up in this region. Jean Guillemot studied at the University of Earth Sciences in Marseille for 6 years, graduating in 2001 with a degree in Oceanography and in specialisation to environnement polution.
After worked at the Biosphere Reserve near Montreal (Canada), he moved to Reunion Island in 2002. There, he worked as biology teacher in High School until the departure to China in 2006.
With Stephanie Huc, Jean Guillemot crossed China bicycling and horse riding. Following the footsteps of Evariste Huc, the first Frenchmen walked into Lhasa in 1846, they experienced a unique adventure.
During the journey, Jean updated his pedagogic website with informations (articles, images, sounds and videos). This website (education.bleu-outremer.net), was an unique tool wich more than 50 classrooms from Reunion Island, France and China had used it.
Also, he worked in colaboration with a french information scientific website (futura-sciences.com ) during the journey and published scientific articles and videos report on it.
Today, Jean is back to the Reunion Island where he lives. Now he is a adventure travel film maker and photographer serving the knowledge.
“At the end of the road, Lhasa”, 5400 km by bicycle and on horseback on the trail of Evariste Huc is his first adventure-documentary and “Beijing to Lhassa, from Evariste Huc until today” is his first big historical photography exhibition (175 pictures).
“The prejudices and the stereotypes often nourish ignorance. The fight against ignorance passes by an impartial knowledge of the world which surrounds us. In this direction, it is essential to travel intelligently, without having preconceived ideas and with full knowledge of the facts. In this way, we will share as much more effectively our experiments through our images and our writings. ” |