Monique Jacot (born 1934) is a Swiss photographer and photojournalist.[1]
Jacot studied at the école des Arts et Métiers de Vevey from 1953 to 1956. Gertrude Fehr was one of her professors.[2][3]
Jacot was among the first women photojournalists.[3]
She travelled to Yemen frequently in the 1980s, and provided reporting for numerous noted magazines and newspapers, including Camera (magazine), Elle, L'Illustré, Schweizer Illustrierte, Du, Réalités, and Vogue Paris.[4]
Àlso in the 1980s, Jacot published several works on the conditions faced by women: Femmes de la terre in 1989, on the subject of Swiss women working in agriculture,[5] Printemps de femmes in 1994 and Cadences : l'usine au féminin in 1999.[2][3]
During her career she was a staff photographer for the World Health Organization.[5]
Her work is included in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.[6]