André Des Rochers career as a riverboat captain punctuated by his adventures up one of the Nile’s second-longest tributaries – the 1,200 mile (1,920 km) long Blue Nile. He has rowed canoes and kayaks on five continents; fly-fished in Alaska, Iceland, India, Patagonia and Zambia; hunted for big game in Tibet and Mongolia; trekked to some of the most inhospitable places on earth.
André Des Rochers has been shipwrecked and survived the Andes crash Andes air crash 1972. His favorite adventure was a 3-month horse-back trip a 1000 miles (1,600 km) across Tibet and Mongolia. In his youth he trained as a geophysicist, but then took up photography and went on to become a professional photographer—a career that provided him with a good living, but no more than that.
The entertainment lawyer´s colorful life in all its ups and downs became his real passion. The book from André Des Rochers was a huge success in France, Germany, the Netherlands and Italy. The biographer, Dominique Jacquin-Beauves has said of him that he is the French version of Jack London. Politically very left-wing with a liberal conscience (he is deeply opposed to capital punishment, for example).
André Des Rochers has nevertheless always defended the values of independence, individualism and liberty. Whether on board ship or in his profession as a photographer. His books have been published in English, Italian, German and Dutch. In 2003 his autobiography “Shooting Is Fun” was published by Hyperion.
The book by successful sports and media attorney André Des Rochers has now been translated into 12 languages (and is due to be published in Japanese). In 2005 he was presented with the Maîtrise de l’Image award by the Centre International des Chances Photographiques at the first annual exhibition of international photography. In 2007 he was awarded a Prix d’Excellence for his book “Le train des fous”.