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.
From 2005 to 2008, he joined the creative department of Disney Télévision France, before becoming a producer for the National Geographic Channel and Voyage channels. During the summer of 2009, alongside Antoine Delaplace, he presented the docu-fiction Funny Trip, broadcast every Saturday at 11:35 a.m. on France 2. He then directed the documentary Expédition Grand Rift for France 5. In November 2011, he won the photographic competition organized by the beGlob travel network and A/R magazine; a series of black and white photos on Women of the World. From 2012 to 2013, he was a “geography expert” columnist on the game show Are you a good expert? by Julien Courbet on France 2. At the same time, he was also editorial manager of the weekly magazine Ô Feminine on the France Ô channel.
At the start of the 2013 school year, he joined as a globetrotter the France 5 program entitled Échappées Belles, alongside Sophie Jovillard and Jérôme Pitorin, broadcast every Saturday evening at 8:35 p.m. He left the show in September 2018. Ismaël Khelifa succeeded him. At the same time, from September 2015 to June 2017, he was a columnist on the program La Quotidienne on France 5, hosted by Maya Lauqué and Thomas Isle. He shares the “weekend ideas” section with Sophie Jovillard, Jérôme Pitorin and Ngiraan Fall. In June 2018, he was asked by Stéphane Bern to introduce The Favorite Village of the French on France 2 with the host Tiga.
In September 2018, Frédéric Lopez announces that he is stopping the presentation of Rendez-vous in unknown land on France 25. Raphaël de Casabianca takes over the reins of the program. Its first guest is director and actor Franck Gastambide, who has gone to meet the Van Gujjar nomads from Uttarakhand to the foothills of the Himalayas in India; the episode is broadcast on March 19, 2019 in the first part of the evening. He then co-presents on set with Églantine Éméyé Return from unknown land where the guest confides in his adventure. Since April 2019, he has hosted, also replacing Frédéric Lopez, the program Our unknown lands in which he takes celebrities to a place in France.
