Jacques Moury Beauchamp was born in Paris in 1949. He started to do photography in high school and then studied graphic design at the Ecole Nationale des Arts Appliqués in Paris.
The series of concert photographs that he started in New York City in 1975 was only the beginning. Lover of music, amateur musician, he has devoted through out his creative life a lot of his commissioned and fine art photography work to giving a visual form to music.