Jonathan Fontaine is a freelance documentary photographer and has travelled extensively for the last 10 years across Asia, Africa and South America.
His work focuses on social and humanitarian consequences of globalisation, climate change, deforestation and the many ecological crises that affect the lives of communities around the world. He has made it his commitment to raise awareness of the devastating effects of the environment through photography.
Member of Hans Lucas agency
His first years in South East Asia began with the Rohingyas communities in Myanmar and Bangladesh where he joined SIPA PRESS and continued to document humanitarian issues in The Philippines, India, Thailand and Cambodia.
ROHINGYAS REFUGEES, Myanmar 2013
Since 2016 his projects have focused particularly on the environmental crises in East, North Africa and South America. He is now represented by Hans Lucas agency in France
Borana tribe, ethiopia 2017
BETWEEN 2019 AND 2020, he focused ON GRAN CHACO IN ARGENTINA AND PARAGUAY, THE SECOND LARGEST FOREST IN SOUTH AMERICA, WHERE DEFORESTATION IS affecting badly people and biodiversity. REPLACED BY SOYA PLANTATIONS AND EXPORTED TO EUROPE, MANY NATIVE COMMUNITIES ARE BEING DISPLACED AND DISCRIMINATED AGAINST, DISRUPTING THEIR ENVIRONMENT FOREVER.
Paraguay , Gran Chaco 2020
work in process
In 2023 he decided to continue his journey as a photographer, traveling now only by bicycle to reduce his own carbon footprint in the world exploring Slow Journalism and Cyclo-Reportage.
HONORABLE MENTION OF THE WORLD PRESS 2023
EXHIBITED IN 60 CITIES AROUND THE WORLD WITH THE WORLD PRESS
IN CAMBODIA (ANGKOR WAT FESTIVAL), IN LONDON FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR (ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON)
SCREENED AT VISA POUR L'IMAGE FESTIVAL.
His work has been published in numerous french and international media
THE Guardian, Le Monde, Le Figaro Magazine, L’Humanité, Mediapart, Jeune Afrique, Terra Mater and others. He works regularly with local NGOs and International organisations such as Médecins Sans Frontières in Lebanon
Some published work…
FIGARO
VISA POUR L'IMAGE - SIPA
TERRA MATER
LA CROIX
THE GUARDIAN
L'HUMANITE
LE MONDE
currently in FRANCE