Born in France, Eric Lafforgue started his career in medias & mobile applications. In 2006, he began publishing his photos on the Internet that will shortly be noticed by magazines worldwide. He works with National Geographic, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, Lonely Planet, Times, Grands Reportages...
His work on Papua New Guinea tribes was exhibited at the famous festival "VISA Pour l'Image in Perpignan", France.
With a humanist approach, Eric Lafforgue offers in his pictures and travel stories a positive and benevolent gaze of the countries he visits, often unknown by the public.
Eric Lafforgue is a member of the Hans Lucas studio.
Mount Hagen, Visa pour l’Image, Perpignan, France
Hands - Vacheron-Constatin, Maison du Voyage, Paris, France
Trésors de l’islam en Afrique – De Tombouctou à Zanzibar, Institut du monde arabe, Paris , France
Kurds, Institut français, Erbil, Kurdistan
Us-Them, Inter Art Center, Beijing, China
La Fête, Bangkok, Thailand
Visages du Monde, Festival Moncoutant, France
Asian Urban Life Scene, Hong Kong
Asmara: Africa's Secret Modernist City, Royal Institute of British Architects, London, UK
(Im)possible to see: North Korea, Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography, Moscow, Russia.
Chine Visa pour l’éternité, Maison de la Chine, Paris, France
Hello my name is Paul Smith, Design Museum, London, UKPresse Scoop, Lille, France
Guerriers du Foot, Photon, Toulouse, France
Europe Galeria, Poland
Sleeping beauties, Fowler Museum, USA
Tribal portraits, Soho Loft, NYC, USA
Papua New Guinea, United Nations HQ, NYC, USA
Fetish Modernity, Tervuren museum, Belgium
Corée du Nord en 3D, Fnac, Toulouse, France
Ethiopia tribes, Alliance française de Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
Ici & Ailleurs, Paris, France
Papouasie, Galerie Pierrick Touchefeu, Sceaux, France
Un jour au Yemen, Paris, France
Farkhâr, Economic Cooperation Organization, Teheran, Iran
Papua, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Baining masks, SFO Museum, San Francisco, USA
Death Matters, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, Holland
Kazakstan, Central asian cuktural festival, Doha, Qatar
Vertical Urban Factory, NYC, USA
Somalia, Völkerkundemuseum Universität Zürich, Switzerland
Vanuatu, Musée d'ethnographie de Genève, Switzerland
Cowries, Gold and Digital Cash, the money museum oft he Oesterreichische Nationalbank, Österreich
With Their Heads Held High – Headgear from all over the World,Technisches Museum der Pforzheimer Schmuck, Germany
King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia