The Photographer
He is here to immortalise your feats! When you lose a life, you start again in the last place where he took a picture of you.—Manual, Rayman
The Photographer is a character from the original Rayman game. He serves as a checkpoint in the game, where Rayman can come back to where he was last photographed should he lose a life. His face is never seen apart from a large eye, though he has blonde hair, and wears a chequered trench coat and blue shoes. In Rayman 2, he was replaced by the Green Lum checkpoints. When Rayman has to take his picture with the Photographer, a poster in front of him makes him look like he is very muscular, holding a surfboard and a sea shell. In Rayman Junior, he has to look like he is wearing a cloak like Mr Dark's whilst holding letters and numbers, while the Photographer wears a brown coat instead of a green one with red dots on it.
The Photographer makes a brief appeareance in Rayman Origins during the opening sequence, when he takes a picture of Rayman, Globox, and two teensies. Like several other returning Rayman characters, the Photographer was changed to a Teensy to better fit the style of the previous sequels. His skin is a darker blue than that of his brethren, and he wears a purple outfit with a feathered hat. In earlier versions of the game, he was supposed to have a bigger role, and wait for the characters to come and pose on the cardboard at the end of the level, but in the final version the photographer is unseen (maybe as an omniscient being) and the photoboard takes a mayor role. The photoboard pops out after the heroes reach the end of the level and break the last electoons cage. The characters take different positions in the photoboard, indicating who has collected the most Lums, while the Magician takes the lums into a test tube. The new photoboard shows what appears to be a skinny, loincloth-clad creature wielding an axe , and a large woman in armour wielding a sword; the two most skilled players stand behind these pictures (respectively big woman the first place and the skinny creature the second place), while any remaining characters are left to peek out from behind the photoboard to get their picture taken. While in the original Rayman the Photographer's photoboard acted as a checkpoint within the levels, in this game it acts as an end-of-level point, much like an exit sign or a Spiral Door.