ABOUT SEB
Sébastien Leban is an independent French photojournalist born in 1987. He grew up a mining and steel basin, in Lorraine, Eastern France. The proletarian and laborious world that surrounded him will influence the different subjects he addresses.
Self-taught, he moved to Israel in 2013 to document the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with an approach he wants sensitive and human through subjects such as conscientious objectors in the Israeli army, the energy problems in Gaza, the African refugees in Tel Aviv or the settlers living in the West Bank. Since 2018, Sébastien is working on a project about climate change and its impact on the people around the world.
Sébastien Leban is a member of the association of photographers Divergence and regularly works in order for several news oulet like Le Monde, L'Obs, Le Point, Paris Match, L'Equipe Magazine, Grazia, Le Parisien Week-End, etc. His work has been exhibited in several places in Germany, Turkey, Italy and France.
Awards
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exhibitions
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Lauréat Fisheye x La Gacilly
Climate & Photography
Paris, France -2020​
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Coup de coeur - Bourse du Talent Reportage - The Lost Island
Paris, France 2019
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Finaliste Prix Mentor - Session SCAM
The Lost Island
Paris, France - 2019
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Kolga Award - First Prize Single Shot
Tbilisi, Georgia - 2018
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Tokyo International Photo Award - First Prize Single Shot
Tokyo, Japan - 2018
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Exhibition
La Vallée des Anges - Puzzl
Thionville, France, 2022
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Exhibition
L'ivresse de Pourim
Paris VI, France, 2022
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Collective Exhibition
The Lost Island - Les Transphotographiques
Lille, France, 2021
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Collective Exhibition
The Lost Island - Lumix Festival
Hanover, Germany, 2020
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Collective Exhibition
The Lost Island - Festival La Gacilly
La Gacilly, France, 2020
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Collective Exhibition
The Lost Island - Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Bourse du Talent
Paris, France, December 2019/March 2020
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Collective Exhibition
Kolga Festival - Saint-Louis
Tbilisi, Georgia - 2019
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Exhibition
The Lost Island - Le 61
Paris, France, 2019
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Collective Exhibition
Festival ​Barrobjectif - The Lost Island
Barro, France 2019
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Exhibition
Kihnu - Escale La Grange aux Belles
Paris, France, 2018
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Collective Exhibition
Istanbul Documentary Photo Days - Gaza ON/OFF - Istanbul, Turkey, 2017
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Collective Exhibition
Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism - Kihnu
Hanover, Germany, 2016
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Collective Exhibition
Cité de l’Architecture et du Design - “Habiter le campement”, exposition de plusieurs images issues d’un reportage dans un foyer AFTAM
Paris, France, 2016