Germinal Roaux

Germinal Roaux (born the August 8th 1975 with Lausanne) is a Photographe and Cinéaste free - Swiss.

Biography

Born the August 8th 1975 with Lausanne (Swiss), Germinal Roaux follows all its schooling to the School Rudolf Steiner of Lausanne. It starts, at the 16 years age, an option “photographs” that it will continue during two years and is interested in the audio-visual realization, on advertizing turnings in New York. In 1994, it carries out like work of end of study its first documentary on the problem of the turning into a desert in Burkina Faso “a rain and men”.

Of return in Switzerland in 1995, it becomes photographer-to defer RP FSJ for the magazines the Magazine and Hebdo (Swiss) , for which it has worked in “freelance worker” for more than 10 years.

In 2000, it receives the First Swiss Price of the Media for a series of reports photographs dealing with the autism in the child and the adult and becomes in 2002 collaborator regular magazines of mode Edelweiss and Type for which it works as Studio photographer.

In 2003, Germinal Roaux carries out its first true documentary film, “Of the heaps of things”, film a 28 minute old on the integration of the mentally handicapped persons in our company. Pierre Assouline in Le Monde writes in connection with film: “”.

Catalog of films

Icebergs (2007), Price Action Light for the best Swiss hope with the festival of the film Locarno 2007.
Of the heaps of things (2004), price of Best foreign film to the festival of film of Dakar 2004, nomination at the price of the cinema Switzerland 2005.

See too

External bonds

Site of Germinal Roaux

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