ABOUT

ROMAN JEHANNO

Before studying photography at Gobelins, I was fascinated by digital images and I was amazed by what Photoshop 7.0 offered. Since I graduated in 2008, I’ve never stopped exploring visual storytelling.

For my project Savoir-Faire, I travelled the world to meet artisans, craftspeople, artists and workers, and photograph them in their everyday environments. For a decade, I kept arriving with an ignorant eye and ears ready to listen to their stories, their techniques and their thoughts. I would then make their portraits to condense all of this into a picture. This project led me to SÁMIS, combining a photographic series and a 52-minute documentary, which received awards at several festivals.

With Clic Clac Kodak, I began to give myself a freedom I had rarely allowed myself before. Using a 6×6 film camera, I started making photographs without a predefined subject or the need to control every element. Initially, these images weren’t intended to be shown; it took several years to recognise this work as a project in its own right. I was taking notes, in a way, on the beauty of everyday life, on moments that disappear as quickly as they come.

Eikasia, Leftover Lives and Alternative Irreality have followed that urge to explore, that need for memory and introspection. Looking back, I tend to begin my projects with instinct and analyse afterwards to understand myself.

Alongside this artistic work, I’ve been building a career in commercial photography. I’ve had the privilege of working with leading advertising agencies and well-known clients, sometimes bringing personal artistic explorations into our work together. I’m still juggling that constant desire to try things with the need to make a living from photography.

I received a Hasselblad Masters award in 2014. My work has appeared in publications including National Geographic Traveler China, The Washington Post and China Newsweek.

Year after year, that early fascination with technology and digital images has left me with a growing need for reality, life and poetry.

EXHIBITIONS

2025 - Exhibition Leftover Lives - Blanc Wasabi - Arles
2024 - Exhibition Leftover Lives - 0fr
2024 - Exhibition - SÁMIS - Mediamonks
2024 - Screening and photo exhibition - SÁMIS - GOBELINS Paris
2023 - Screening - SÁMIS - Christine Cinéma Club
2022-2023 - Savoir-Faire & Paysages - Dupon Art
2021-2023 - Grounded - Little Red Door
2018 - Visages & Savoirs-Faires - Cour d’Honneur de Veuve Clicquot, Reims
2017 - Savoir-Faire Austral Africa - Voies Off - Nouveaux Regards
2016 - Humains, très humains -  H Gallery
2015 - Symboles - Galerie Sisso

AWARDS & SELECTIONS

2025 - Reykjavik Film Festival - Best Documentary
2024 - GIFF Documentary - Official Selection
2024 - Arctic Film Festival - Best Documentary
2023 - SCIFF - Official Selection
2021 - The Independent Photographer - PEOPLE AWARD Editors’ Picks
2019 - PX3 Gold Prize - Fine Art Category
2017 - Projection Voies Off - Arles
2014 - Expose Yourself Contest
2014 - Hasselblad Master

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

National Geographic TRAVELER - Washington Post - Adobe - Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin - Réponses Photo - Progresso Fotografico - Savoir-Faire Project - Caption magazine - Peru Project - Graine de Photographe - Hasselblad, Peru Project - Fubiz, Peru Project - Hasselblad - Japan Project - Fubiz - USA Project - Hasselblad.com - BundPic.com - L’oeil de la photographie - PixelCreation.fr - China NewsWeek

SELECTED CLIENTS

Banque Populaire - Bollinger - Carte Noire - Casden - Colissimo - CTIG - Disneyland Paris - DSM Firmenich - Elf - Hasselblad - Ikea - Kiabi - La Poste - L’Artisanat de France - Orange - Pernod Ricard‍ - Renault - Robertet - Valrhona - Veuve Clicquot - Visa

BBDO - BETC - Dentsu - Havas - La Chose - Marcel - Monks - McCann - MNSTR - Publicis - Rosbeef - Saatchi & Saatchi - TBWA