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Behind every photo, there is a story… And Jean-Marc Carisse tells the story well. The award-winning photographer and author has captured more than five decades of events and people that have shaped Canadian culture and captivated the world’s attention.
Carisse photographed national and global leaders, royals, entertainers, icons, heroes, and world-renowned personalities; he brings us backstage with him as he encounters and captures celebrities such as Paul Anka, Charles Aznavour, David Bowie, Fidel Castro, Leonard Cohen, Céline Dion, Bob Dylan, Wayne Gretzky, Yousef Karsh, Mario Lemieux, Nelson Mandela, Paul McCartney, Rudolf Nureyev, Queen Elizabeth II, Frank Sinatra, the Rolling Stones, and Mother Teresa.
As Jean Chrétien so eloquently puts it in his foreword, “Jean-Marc’s own words add additional colour and immerse the reader into many of the photos’ context and insight of the moment when he pushed the shutter button to capture that moment in history.”
Growing up in Ottawa’s Lowertown during the 1950s and 1960s, Jean-Marc Carisse graduated from the University of Ottawa (BA ’74) after attending LaSalle Academy in Ottawa’s Lowertown and graduating from Eastview High School. His first job on Parliament Hill sent him straight to prime minister office. He spent many years as an official photographer to Canadian prime ministers and captured meetings with world leaders including US presidents from Gerald Ford to Joe Biden.
His photos have been featured in documentaries, biographies and memoirs by prime ministers and magazines such as Time, Paris Match, Maclean’s, and Stern.
In 2002, Carisse received the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal, and in 2022 the Library and Archives Canada (LAC) Scholar Award. LAC holds approx. 400,000 of his negatives.