Born in Port-au-Prince Haiti, 1958 his parents brought him to the United States while he was 12 years old. In the late seventies he began holding a camera just for the fun of it. by the mid eighties he was very much into photo taken and developing that he build his own dark room and process films as well as printing and developing Cibachromes. He later took a job at New York Film works where became an assistant manager of the facility. During that time he work in all sort of film related area. From processing Kodachrome slides, mixing chemicals in heavy volume, color printing, color enlarging, black and white printing. and many administrative duties, he mastered photography. He always made use of a camera for various reason. He touch a lot of different areas of photo shooting (Weddings, sports, models, and Nature). When his wife became an artist around 1991, he started using his camera to take pictures of her work and has now developed a serious collection of her paintings which he has worked on with the computer programs for special effects.
Still involved in many aspects of the art world, he works on site building, brochures, fliers, booklets, business cards etc.
JeanDarcel has also been involved in many different sports. He played Volleyball, Soccer, Badminton, Ping Pong, Tennis, Golf, Bowling, Ice Dancing, and Roller skating. He is very good at most but understandably a jock of all trades. He has been managing skating rinks for nearly twenty five years. He was the assistant manager at the Rink at Rockefeller Center during the late eighties until the beginning of the second millennium. A rink director for New York State office of parks at Riverbank State Park from the mid nineties until present. You will see some of his exposure with parks in some of his photographs.
He is currently creating various albums for the public viewing which brings us to the content of this section. In keeping with our high standards of service, we will from time to time show some of his work.. Please continue to check on us and thank you for your interest!
