Born in Paris, France. After studying in National Film School of Louis Lumiere in Paris he started his career in the early 1960s as camera assistant working for 11 years with French and English cinematographers such as David Watkin, Sacha Vierny, Chris Challis, Claude Renoir, Henri Alekan and others. He was a camera assistant on Orson Welles's memorable adaptation of Franz Kafka's The Trial. Fraisse later collaborated with Just Jaeckin shooting with him four features. In the 1980s he moved into the French mainstream, working with Philippe DeBroca and Edouardo Molinaro. In 1991 he started his collaboration with Jean Jacques Annaund receiving for their first film L'AMANT / THE LOVER the Academy Award® nomination for his limpid, haunting images of Vietnam, and particularly the Mekong river. They also cooperated together on WINGS OF COURAGE, SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET (1997) and ENEMY AT THE GATES (2001). He counts over 30 features being credited also with such directors as Christian Gion, Chris Gerolmo, John Frankenhaimer, Roland Joffe among others. For Joffe's VATEL (2000) he received the Silver Frog at Camerimage 2000. His first film as director of photography was EMMANUELLE 2 (1975). Other notable credits include THE STORY OF O (1975), LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER (1981), LA GITANE / THE GYPSY (1986), LA PASSERELLE / THE CROSSING (1988), UN CRIME (1993), RONIN (1998), LA BÛCHE / SEASON'S BEATINGS (1999), LUTHER and TEMPO (both 2003), THE NOTEBOOK and HOTEL RWANDA (both 2004), ALPHA DOG and LA DOUBLURE / THE VALET (both 2006), and GOODBYE BAFANA (2007).  Nominated for Achievement in Cinematography 1992: L'AMANT (THE LOVER) 1 nomination