Country: France 🇫🇷
Lucas Barioulet, born in Angers, France in 1996, is a french freelance photojournalist, graduate from Ecole de Journaliste de Tours and San Diego State University. He is now based in Paris and focusing on islamic republics.
In 2018, he began working as a stringer photographer for the world news agency Agence France Presse and Le Monde, covering the yellow vests movements and daily news in France. During the Covid-19 crisis, he extensively covered the situation in France, from intensive care units to funerals of covid-19 victims.
In 2019, Lucas started a long term project of Islamic Republic in different parts of the world. He travelled several times Mauritania, photographing the different region of the desertic country, after 10 years of isolationism. In his serie "A closed desert", he questions the importance of tradition and relation to the land of mauritanians.
In 2021, he travelled to another Islamic Republic, Pakistan, alone during 3 months, working on Pakistan identity : between national identity, ethnic identity and gender identity inside one of the most conservative society. The final serie, "The land of the Pure", is composed of a body of 40 pictures using a medium format camera.
In november 2021, he started a new project in the Russian arctic, explored the sense of place among youth a region undergoing and demographic and economic crisis.
In 2018, he began working as a stringer photographer for the world news agency Agence France Presse and Le Monde, covering the yellow vests movements and daily news in France. During the Covid-19 crisis, he extensively covered the situation in France, from intensive care units to funerals of covid-19 victims.
In 2019, Lucas started a long term project of Islamic Republic in different parts of the world. He travelled several times Mauritania, photographing the different region of the desertic country, after 10 years of isolationism. In his serie "A closed desert", he questions the importance of tradition and relation to the land of mauritanians.
In 2021, he travelled to another Islamic Republic, Pakistan, alone during 3 months, working on Pakistan identity : between national identity, ethnic identity and gender identity inside one of the most conservative society. The final serie, "The land of the Pure", is composed of a body of 40 pictures using a medium format camera.
In november 2021, he started a new project in the Russian arctic, explored the sense of place among youth a region undergoing and demographic and economic crisis.