Raphaël de Casabianca, born July 29, 1980 in Paris, is a French photographer, documentary filmmaker, globetrotter and television host. Born to a Corsican father and a mother from Béarnaise, Raphaël de Casabianca developed a passion for photography from the age of 16. After taking courses at EICAR, he obtained a BTS in audiovisual editing. In 1996, when he made his first documentaries in France and abroad, he won second prize in the Audiovisual Competition of the city of Paris, with his stop-motion short film, entitled The Adventures of Burk.