Michel Huneault
Cosmos
Montreal, QC, Canada
Michel is a Montreal-based photographer. Before devoting himself full time to his photography practice in 2008, Michel worked for over ten years in the international development field, a profession which took him to over twenty countries, including one full year in Kandahar. He holds a MA in Latin American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a Rotary World Peace Fellow, researching on the role of collective memory in large scale traumatic recovery. At Berkeley, he was a student and teaching assistant of Magnum photographer Gilles Peress, and afterwards held an apprenticeship position with him in New York.
Currently, his work focuses on development related issues, on personal and collective traumas, and complex geographies. His body of work, mixing photography with audio/video elements, includes work created in Canada (Lac-Mégantic), Japan (Tohoku) and Haiti (Port-au-Prince). His recent work was shown in various festivals in Canada, the UK and the Netherlands.
Recent publications and editorial partners include New York Times, TIME, BJP, Wired, The Guardian Magazine, GUP Magazine, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, Photo District News, Vice, Le Devoir, Macleans, within others. Michel is a regular grantee of the Québec and Canada Arts Councils. In 2015, his long term and multifaceted project in Lac-Mégantic won the Dorothea Lange - Paul Taylor fellowship.
- Architecture
- Arts
- Audio capture
- Breaking news
- Conflict
- Corporate
- Crisis
- Editorial
- Environment
- Interior
- Interview
- Landscape
- Medical
- Military embed
- Portrait
- Reporting
- RISC training
- Still life
- Video capture
- Video editing
