Jean-Baptiste Mondino

Jean-Baptiste Mondino (born Aubervilliers, France on 21 July 1949) is a French fashion photographer[1] and music video director.

He has directed music videos for Madonna, David Bowie, Sting, Björk, Don Henley, Neneh Cherry, Jaye Muller (J./Count Jaye), Axel Bauer and Les Rita Mitsouko.

[2] Mondino has also photographed the covers and album packaging for Aṣa's Beautiful Imperfection (2010), the Marianne Faithfull albums Before The Poison (2005) and Easy Come, Easy Go (2008), Shakespear's Sister's Hormonally Yours (1992), Alain Bashung's Osez Joséphine (1991), Chatterton (1994), Mylène Farmer's Désobéissance (2018), J.

He also designed the titles for the Anglo-French TV music show Rapido.

This video paired him with compatriot cinematographer, Pascal Lebègue, with whom he would later shoot several other notable music videos in black and white, such as "Russians" for Sting and "Justify My Love" for Madonna.