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Philip Poupin was born in the West of France in 1982. He is a self-taught photographer. When he suggested for his master's essay in 2004 to his College of Geopolitics to write on the present war of Darfur, it sounded crazy. However a few months later, he came back with his inquiry and his first photo report on the young warriors of Darfur. This report brought him the same year the Grand Prix Paris Match awarded the best student photoreport of the year. From then on, he was spurred by this incentive. In 2005, he left for the West Bank and Gaza Strip (Palestine). Later on the same year, he made a photoreport on « Mahadjirines in Chad for the Figaro Magazine, and another one on slavery in Niger for Paris Match and a TV documentary « Darfur, the forgotten hell » for ARTE channel. In 2006, after having followed in France the youth anti-CPE movement, he left for the West Bank then went to Afghanistan where he worked for New York Times and US News and World Report. The following year, he crossed the Atlantic Ocean, to go to onto the field to meet another unknown territory to report differently from the usual way of statistics and « clean » information. He reprted on its reality: the Amazonia, its illegal wood logging and its gold mines.

Philip works as a free-lance and can be contacted for any kind of works. You can know in which country he is travelling is thanks to the website Lightstalkers.

Perrine Poupin – february 2008