Pascal Kober
renifleur du temps


Free-lance journalist, photographer and author

Base camp: Grenoble, in the French Alps.
Field of action: the planet at large.
Key words: image, text, music, memory. And curiosity, as a form of creativity in the rough. The term Renifleur du temps (possible translation: observer of the time passing) came to mind to express my perpetual attentiveness to the murmurs of the universe. Particularly as concerns jazz music, photography, travels, ...

Pascal Kober, here and there

  • Born on 29 August 1957.
  • 1975 to 1981, in Metz, École des Beaux-Arts (photography), University (human ecology) and Conservatory (electro-acoustic music).
  • 1981 to 1982, journalist at Photo Reporter magazine.
  • 1983 to 1985, editor at Photo Magazine.
  • 1985 to 1988, editor at Montagnes Magazine.
  • 1988 to 1991, editor-in-chief and co-founder of News Montagne.
  • 1996 to 1998, managing editor for the magazines published by Glenat Presse.
  • Since 1998, editor-in-chief of L'Alpe published four times a year by Editions Glenat with the Musee dauphinois.
  • Since 1991 (also ;-), free-lance photographer and journalist for the written and audiovisual press. Particular fields: jazz, music, travel, photography and computer sciences.
  • Author or co-author of a dozen books.
  • Amateur musician (bass).

Concerning jazz music, I have the great pleasure to work for one of the oldest jazz magazines, created in 1935 by Charles Delaunay, and for nearly twenty years now. Jazz Hot has published my photographs of musicians, my "breakfast interviews" (Terence Blanchard, Betty Carter, Billy Childs, Chick Corea, Slide Hampton, Michele Hendricks, Branford Marsalis, Marilyn Mazur, Horace Silver, Steve Swallow, Toots Thielemans and more), my special reports (jazz in the Soviet Union in 1991, jazz in Turkey in 1996), my articles (Miles Davis), my reviews on festivals as well as on recordings.

Pascal Kober
(thanks to Cary who translated these words)


Sorry, but for the moment, there is nothing else available in english version on these home pages. I speak English. A little bit. But not enough to translate my whole production.
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