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.