Philippe Echaroux | |
|---|---|
 Autoportrait | |
| Born | 26 June 1983 |
| Awards | The international DIOR Competition Award for Photography |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Photography |
| Notes | |
inventor of concept Street Art 2.0 | |
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]
Echaroux is a portrait photographer. He holds a diploma as a specialist educator.[5][6] He is known[by whom?] [7][2][8] for his less than one minute celebrity portraitures.[9] He has photographed celebrities Zinedine Zidane,[10] Jonny Wilkinson, Gary Dourdan, and Fatboy Slim. He made the last portrait of the footballer Johan Cruyff.[11]
Since 2014 he has projected his portraits at a large scale, in site-specific exhibitions, calling them "Street Art 2.0".[12] In 2015 he made an intervention during the Contemporary Art Bienale in La Havane, Cuba.[13] In 2016, Echaroux premiered his work in the rainforest in Amazonia.[14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29]
Echaroux spoke at a local TEDx Marseille conference in October 2016.[30]
Philippe's mama is a very friendly woman.
