Jacques Maudy was born in Tangier, Morocco, from a French mother and a father of Spanish origin. Both languages were spoken at home.

Jacques followed his parents who settled in Paris when he was 16.
In 1978 he started a mail order company that became a 120 staff operation spanning three continents.
He became a direct marketing guru in France and sold the company in 1989.
At 40 Jacques launched a fast growing advertising agency in Paris, selling it four years later.

In 1995 he and his family moved to settle permanently on Australia’s Sunshine Coast. The family acquired Australian citizenship two years after immigrating.

Jacques is an active citizen. He shares his knowledge in entrepreneurship with the students of the Sunshine Coast University where he is a regular speaker. He is a motivational speaker and business adviser.

He is a supporter of Greenpeace and Get Up! and was among the early protesters against the plight of the refugees in Australia.

Jacques is an aerobatic pilot who made third at the Qld Championships and a scuba diver.

In Australia he undertook photography and attended the Sunshine Coast School of Photography directed by Colin Beard.

Jacques is interested in documenting changing societies and how the changes impact on people’s lives.

He travelled to Cuba in January and February 2012 following a radio interview of the Cuban minister of the economy announcing the sacking of 25% of the country’s workforce from State controlled companies to incite them to create private enterprises virtually inexistent in Cuba before this decision.

Since the election of Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar was on his radar. Jacques volunteered in June 2012 to document Yangon (Rangoon – Myanmar) heritage buildings for the Yangon Heritage Trust. Myanmar is undergoing massive political changes and Yangon is the last intact colonial city in Asia. The lift of the embargo will see the developers rush in. Defining heritage zones and enacting legislation to protect the architectural heritage is a matter of urgency. Australian Minister Bob Carr has committed a team of Australian experts to the Yangon Heritage Trust.

He travelled to Myanmar with Italian photographer Jimi Casaccia Annie Gaffney, ABC Radio journalist.

He confounded JJMC PHOTO, a partnership with Italian photographer Jimi Casaccia.


Books:
“Cuba 2012”
In preparation “Yangon, a City to Rescue” in collaboration with Jimi Casaccia
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