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Jean Guichard, born in Paris, on April 28, 1952, is a French photographer known for his images of lighthouses.

One series of seven pictures, titled La Jument, is world-famous ; taken in 1989, it depicts the French lighthouse " La Jument " in a tempest.

In the photograph, a wave is about to engulf the lighthouse as its keeper, Théodore Malgorne, thinking Guichard's was the rescue helicopter, looks out the open door.