Hamar tribe man with Chelsea shirt - Omo Valley Ethiopia Photograph

Born in 1964, Eric Lafforgue lives in Toulouse, France. Ever since he was young, he has been fascinated by far away countries and travelling, and spent some time in Africa, unknowingly retracing Monfried and Joseph Kesselʼs footsteps when he was 10 years old in Djibouti, Ethiopia and Yemen. He started taking photographs in 2006, publishing his pictures on the internet, after leaving the world of multimedia editing in which he was involved for over 15 years. The following year, after a trip to Papua New Guinea, Kubik took notice of his work and published a book containing his photos. Soon after, magazines from all over the world began using his work for illustrations on North Korea, the tribes of Ethiopia, etc. He then joined the european leading agency RAPHO. In 2008, after 2 years of activity in the world of photography, his work on the people of Papua is displayed at the prestigious VISA photojournalism festival in Perpignan. Eric Lafforgue spends most of his time travelling the globe to share his encounters, through the perception of an ethnologist and the heart of an artist, privileging the regions or populations in danger and less usually visited countries. Eric Lafforgue uses Hasselblad H4D-50, Leica M6, Canon Eos D1 MarkIII, 5D M3 . His work has been published in: National Geographic, CNN Traveler,Sunday times, GEO, GEO Ado, Morning Calm Korea, Ushuaia Magazine, Lonely Planet, Bradt Guides, PPR, Le Monde des religions, PBS, The Times, Travel Business China, Periodico Diagonal, Reader's Digest, BBC, Mindfood, Trend China, La Stampa, Sciences et Vie Jr, Cultural Survival, UNESCO, Blue Planet, Wealth, Globetrotter, Descopera, India Today, Silverkris, Il Italia, Town & Country, Sciences Humaines, Vi Menn, Get Lost,Best Life, Tomorrow...... "Hasselblad Owners' Club - Photographer of the month January 2011"