Philippe Jarrigeon

Born in France, Philippe Jarrigeon graduated in photography from ECAL (École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne) in 2006, a prestigious Swiss art school where he has taught since 2008.

He exhibited at the International Festival of Fashion and Photography in Hyères (France) and the Fotomuseum Winterthur (Switzerland) in 2008, as well as at the Galerie des Galeries Lafayette Haussmann in 2014 with the project Grand Magasin, a photographic exhibition celebrating the 25th ANDAM Prize.

He regularly collaborates with numerous international magazines, including Double, Dazed, M, Le magazine du Monde, The New York Times, Interview, Vogue,and W Magazine. He also works for fashion and luxury houses such as Cartier, Chanel, Hermès, Proenza Schouler, and Tiffany & Co., as well as with artists such as Rebeka Warrior, Snoop Dogg—for whom he shot the cover of the 2015 album Bush—Philippe Katerine for his 2024 album Zouzou, and Juliette Armanet, whose debut music video L’Amour en Solitaire he directed in 2017. Between 2009 and 2015, he published his own magazine with Sylvain Menétrey, Dorade, a gallant review bridging photography and critical forms, which quickly became an avant-garde platform featuring contributions from artists such as Camille Vivier, Théo Mercier, and Brice Dellsperger. In 2012, Dorade won the prestigious Swiss Design Award and the Best Cultural Magazine prize awarded by the Art Directors Club. In 2021,Philippe Jarrigeon published his first book, PLAY, celebrating a 15-year career with RVB books. Following its release,PLAY was exhibited simultaneously at the Belfast Photo Festival and the Athens Photo Festival, and was shortlisted for the Aperture Paris Photo Book Prize in 2022 in the First Photo Book category. In 2026, supported by the Womanray gallery, Philippe Jarrigeon exhibited for the first time at Paris Photo an excerpt from his second book, Rocher Fatal, to be published in September 2026 by the same publisher, paying tribute to the Forest of Fontainebleau. On this occasion, the series won the Ruinart Prize for Photography and was the subject of a solo exhibition.

His practice is characterized by an approach filled with humor and irony, featuring vibrant colors and a polished aesthetic.The photographer loves to replay, and sometimes overplay, the visual codes of the 1990s marked by pop culture at its peak. Behind the gleam of a gilded cosmetic weapon or the bubblegum pink of a girly bedroom, Jarrigeon paints the portrait of an era of kitsch excesses, through images situated somewhere between fiction and memory. The multiplicity of genres he invokes nourishes the richness of his visual language and offers a declaration of love to photography,recognized as a hybrid expression whose boundaries between genres joyfully shatter.