Romain Philippon
- Director
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
French & Reunion island based photographer and director, Romain Philippon is specialized in documentary style music videos. He also worked on many french movies as a set photographer.
Freelance photographer on Reunion Island since 2006, Romain Philippon is a member of the Inland cooperative, and works regularly for Liberation, Le Monde and Le Monde Magazine. For several years, he has been developing around documentary photography themes related to insularity, in its geographical and human forms, mainly in the Indian Ocean territory. Questioning his practice of the image in various projects, which range from photographic documentary to videographic experimentation with other artists (recently with the singer Ben Mazué), he likes to put poetry at the heart of his work. In April 2015, he launched the photographic magazine Fragments, which offers a singular and contemporary look at the Indian Ocean. In 2012, he published a book on street sleepers around the world, entitled Insconscience (Pendant ce temps publisher), which received the public prize at the Strasbourg photo fair. In 2017, his work Commune do fé, on the poorest neighborhood of Reunion, was presented at the Images Singulières photographic festival in Sète, as part of the collective project La France vue d'ici. The same year, he led a workshop on documentary photography with Morgan Fache at the Reunion School of Fine Arts, and explored with the students the existing borders between documentary photography and the world of contemporary art. In 2019, he joined Inland, a cooperative of independent photographers who develop long-term documentary subjects. In 2020, he started Traverse, a project with Thierry Hoarau, and spent eight months documenting the village of La Plaine des Palmistes. From this project is born the photographic journal Fey Sonj (Leaf Songe in Creole), a free 32-page ad-free newspaper that will be distributed only in this village. Finally in 2021, Romain Philippon joined the Documents d'artistes network in La Réunion, part of the national network of the same name.
Freelance photographer on Reunion Island since 2006, Romain Philippon is a member of the Inland cooperative, and works regularly for Liberation, Le Monde and Le Monde Magazine. For several years, he has been developing around documentary photography themes related to insularity, in its geographical and human forms, mainly in the Indian Ocean territory. Questioning his practice of the image in various projects, which range from photographic documentary to videographic experimentation with other artists (recently with the singer Ben Mazué), he likes to put poetry at the heart of his work. In April 2015, he launched the photographic magazine Fragments, which offers a singular and contemporary look at the Indian Ocean. In 2012, he published a book on street sleepers around the world, entitled Insconscience (Pendant ce temps publisher), which received the public prize at the Strasbourg photo fair. In 2017, his work Commune do fé, on the poorest neighborhood of Reunion, was presented at the Images Singulières photographic festival in Sète, as part of the collective project La France vue d'ici. The same year, he led a workshop on documentary photography with Morgan Fache at the Reunion School of Fine Arts, and explored with the students the existing borders between documentary photography and the world of contemporary art. In 2019, he joined Inland, a cooperative of independent photographers who develop long-term documentary subjects. In 2020, he started Traverse, a project with Thierry Hoarau, and spent eight months documenting the village of La Plaine des Palmistes. From this project is born the photographic journal Fey Sonj (Leaf Songe in Creole), a free 32-page ad-free newspaper that will be distributed only in this village. Finally in 2021, Romain Philippon joined the Documents d'artistes network in La Réunion, part of the national network of the same name.
