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Philippe Echaroux

French photographer and street artist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Philippe Echaroux
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Philippe Echaroux (born 1983) is a French photographer and street artist. He projects his portraits at a large scale, calling them "Street Art 2.0".[1][2][3][4]

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Photography career

Echaroux is a portrait photographer. He holds a diploma as a specialist educator.[5][6] He specialises in less than one minute celebrity portraitures.[7] He has photographed celebrities Zinedine Zidane,[8] Jonny Wilkinson, Gary Dourdan, and Fatboy Slim. He made the last portrait of the footballer Johan Cruyff.[9]

Since 2014 he has projected his portraits at a large scale, in site-specific exhibitions, calling them "Street Art 2.0".[10] In 2015 he made an intervention during the Contemporary Art Bienale in La Havane, Cuba.[11] In 2016, Echaroux premiered his work in the rainforest in Amazonia.[12][13][14][15]

Echaroux spoke at a local TEDx Marseille conference in October 2016.[16]

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Awards

  • 2008: International Dior Competition Award for Photography[17][18][19]

Publications

  • Gueules du Rugby: Qu'est-ce qu'elles ont nos Gueules ?. 2JP, 2015. ISBN 9782746680616.

References

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