Bastien Deschamps is a wandering photographer born in Paris in 1990. After working as a sound engineer, lighting designer, and venue manager, he decided in 2015 to take the road and dedicate himself to photography full-time. He mainly traveled through Russia (he spent two winters in Siberia), China, Japan, India, the Middle-East and the United States.

In 2018 he received a scholarship from the Wall Street Journal to study at the International Center of Photography (ICP) and graduated from the Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism program in 2019.

Since then he has been dedicating himself to his personal projects, dividing his time between author documentary work, existential photography, and book-making. He claims his practice of photography as geopoetics. Not really in a universalist sense as Kenneth White theorized but rather by approaching social issues through the prism of raw feeling. To deal with societal concerns with a sensitivity and a photographic approach of an author. To use the tools of journalism or anthropology (interview, long immersion, collection of testimonies, etc.) to make it an invitation to explore and to meet.

In 2020 he started the project Where the Border Runs: Tales from the River Sides, a long-term geopoetic journey along border rivers within the world. Articulated in five chapters, this project will follow different border rivers in the world, focusing on both their specificities and common issues. He is currently working on the second chapter along the Maroni river in French Guiana.