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".
Photography career
Echaroux is a portrait photographer. He holds a diploma as a specialist educator. He is known
for his less than one minute celebrity portraitures. He has photographed celebrities
Zinedine Zidane
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,
Jonny Wilkinson,
Gary Dourdan
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, and
Fatboy Slim
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. He made the last portrait of the footballer
Johan Cruyff.
Since 2014 he has projected his portraits at a large scale, in site-specific exhibitions, calling them "Street Art 2.0". In 2015 he made an intervention during the Contemporary Art Bienale in La Havane, Cuba. In 2016, Echaroux premiered his work in the rainforest in Amazonia.
Echaroux spoke at a local
TED
TED may refer to:
Economics and finance
* TED spread between U.S. Treasuries and Eurodollar
Education
* ''Türk Eğitim Derneği'', the Turkish Education Association
** TED Ankara College Foundation Schools, Turkey
** Transvaal Education Depa ...
x Marseille conference in October 2016.
Awards
*2008: International Dior Competition Award for Photography
Publications
*''Gueules du Rugby: Qu'est-ce qu'elles ont nos Gueules ?.'' 2JP, 2015. .
Gallery
File:Philippe_Echaroux_-_Street_Art_Paris.jpg
File:Philippe_Echaroux_-_Portrait_de_Jimi_Hendrix_en_2014.jpg
References
External links
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French photographers
Artists from Marseille
1983 births
Living people
Social documentary photographers