His work focuses on the consequences of geography and of globalisation. In previous years he has worked on long-term projects and documented aspects of life in China, The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea), former Soviet countries, Nigeria, UK and France. In 2014 Phil founded The New Continent, a slow journalism long term project with the aim to document the stories of people living within or outside of Europe’s Schengen borders. Phil Le Gal is also the founder of Photoscratch, an exchange and networking platform dedicated to showing new works of documentary photography.