He is a French photographer born in 1964, currently lives in Toulouse, Eric Lafforgue spends most of his time traveling the world to share their encounters, through the perception of an ethnologist and the heart of an artist, privileging the regions or populations in danger and the least visited countries in general.

Since he was a boy travel to distant countries have fascinated him. At the age of ten, he traveled with his parents to Djibouti, Ethiopia and Yemen. However, his career as a photographer began quite late, in the year 2006.

He started traveling and taking pictures, uploading them to Flickr. After a trip to New Guinea, a publisher called him to publish a book with his photographs: Papou. And after that, his success has been very fast, magazines and newspapers from around the world such as Time Magazine, National Geographic, The New York Times, CNN Traveler, BBC, The Sunday Times, Lonely Planet, GEO, International Herald Tribune, Corriere Della Sera, Le Monde, The Times, La Stampa, India Today, and Afar, Bradt Guides, Ushuaia Magazine, Travel Business China, Reader's Digests, among others, began to use their work to illustrate articles on North Korea, Papua New Guinea , the tribes of Ethiopia, among others.

Works in both digital and film, uses Hasselblad H4D-50, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, Canon H4D 5D Mark III, Leica M6. He owns the company La Crea Multimedia and is part of the European agency Rapho