Tokyo Parano
A concert, a smartphone and a wrong turn in Tokyo’s sprawling subway system. A journey through Shinjuku’s underground maze, where getting lost becomes a way of discovering the city.
Folks.Zeitgeist.
A few decades of watching the world. Still asking questions.
↓JP / PARIS — ELSEWHERE
01 / Journalist. Author. And everything else.
I've written
more than
articles.
Quite a few articles, though. For Libération, Télérama, 01net and elsewhere.
I've also edited magazines, worked in radio, written books (sometimes under someone else's name), and dreamed up a few editorial projects along the way.
And then there's everything that doesn't fit into any of those categories.
02 / STORIES
The world is
a mess.
Good.
Features, investigations, portraits. Stories about people, first and foremost. A selection, inevitably subjective.
Une créature artificielle est entrée dans ma vie
Some people share their lives with life-size dolls, giving them personalities, feelings and sometimes a place in the family. An investigation into the world of love dolls, where human attachment meets artificial companionship.
Les nouveaux enfants du Pirée
In the early 2000s, Athens and Piraeus were changing. A new generation was growing up in a Greece shaped by immigration. A report on young people, their families and the society around them.
Vincent Dedienne, un clown heureux
He dreads birthdays, dreams of growing old as an actor and has little patience for the easy laughs of stand-up. A portrait of French comedian Vincent Dedienne, caught between artistic ambition, humour and the desire to stop being liked at all costs.
Si les bébés pouvaient parler
What do babies understand before they can speak? Inside the baby labs of Paris’s École normale supérieure, researchers explore how infants learn language and begin to make sense of the world.
WE INTERRUPT THIS PROGRAMME
Curiosity doesn't fit into categories.
BACK TO IT →03 / BOOKS
Some bear my name.
Others don't.
I've written profiles, told people's stories, worked with public figures and specialists. A process of listening, researching and writing. Whatever the project, the challenge is finding the right voice.
04 / PROJECTS
Ideas
made real.
Websites, magazines, editorial identities. Projects where storytelling, strategy and design come together. Three very different worlds, one common thread: finding the right way to tell a story.
01 / EUROFI
Creating a Magazine
How do you make people want to read about European finance when the subject matter is often technical, sometimes downright dry?
For Eurofi, I developed the editorial concept and visual identity of Views, a magazine distributed at conferences bringing together leading figures from Europe's public and private financial sectors. I also designed an earlier version of the organisation's website.
My role: Turning a collection of institutional contributions into a genuine magazine, lively, well-structured and designed to give each contributor a voice while capturing the bigger picture.
02 / OMEGA
Launching a New Venture
How do you put a new men's health centre on the map and give it a distinctive identity?
Working alongside Dr Marc Galiano, an andrologist, I developed a range of editorial content and communication tools to support the launch of OMEGA: books, website optimisation, videos, a newsletter and more. The aim was to highlight his medical expertise, inform the public and attract new patients.
My role: Building a coherent editorial strategy that combines information, education and patient acquisition.
03 / VILLA KULINTANG
Telling the Story of a Place
How do you make people want to discover somewhere they've probably never heard of?
For Villa Kulintang, in the Philippines, I worked on the positioning, editorial identity, storytelling and website design. The challenge was to capture what makes the place, its surroundings and the experience it offers genuinely distinctive.
My role: Creating an editorial world that gives a destination meaning and helps turn curiosity into bookings.
05 / NOTES
In the
Margins.
Things I've noticed, stumbled upon or simply felt like sharing. No particular order. Just curiosity.
SIGNS OF THE TIMES
LYRICS
PHOTO CAPTION
MUST-SEE
06 / CONTACT
Shall we
talk?
Sometimes it starts with a story you don't quite know how to tell. An expertise that's difficult to communicate. A book you can't seem to get started on. A brand still looking for its voice.
That's where I come in: finding the right angle, the right words, and sometimes creating the right medium to bring them together. So a story finds its audience, an expertise becomes accessible, and a brand develops a distinctive identity.
HAVE A PROJECT IN MIND?
A book to write, a life story to tell, an editorial strategy to define, a magazine to create, a website to rethink, writing with AI. Or something that doesn't fit into any of those categories.
DROP ME A LINE ↗pisanias.jeanphilippe@gmail.com
