Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae
Camille Michel born in 1988
Live and work in Paris, Lille , Bachant
Hans Lucas Agency
+ 336 99 47 02 80
www.camillem.net
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http://hanslucas.com/cmichel/photo
Biography. Camille Michel was born in 1988 in a small town in Northern France. She studied medical studies
before discovering visual arts. She studied photography at the university of Paris VIII and then at the ‘Ecole
Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie’ of Arles. She believes that photography is a way of telling stories. She
is interested in the daily life of small communities, isolated, facing times of change (politically, economically,
environmentally). For the last few years, Camille has been traveling in the Far North. She went to Lapland
where she discovered the Sami culture, and then decided to live on a mysterious island in the north of Greenland.
Camille is inspired by these remote places, plunged into boredom and oblivion. Through photography and video, she
tries to recreate the atmosphere of these places, while giving her own perspective. She often refers to ‘poetic documents’
to describe her work. She considers a photographer as a poet talking about his experiences to describe the world.
She finds inspiration in the work of Alec Soth, Evgenia Arbugaeva, Lucas Foglia or Corey Arnold. Her work was
published in Libération, the New York Times, Wired, Photo Magazine. She was awarded several times for her work:
LensCulture Emerging Talent Award, Syngenta Photography Award, Libération Erwan Donnely award, Glénat fundation
award, and the Filature award at the biennial of Mulhouse 2015. Her work was exhibited in France, England, Argentina,
United States, Italy and Brazil. Her first major personal exhibition will take place at the Filature of Mulhouse in 2017.
Camille joined the Hans Lucas studio in 2015 and she is available for photography commissions in France and abroad.
• SCHOOLS
2012-2015 : National School of Photography, Arles.
2009-2012 : University Paris 8, Photography, Paris
• EXHIBITIONS
2015 : 12 - 15 november, Photodoc, Hans Lucas, La Bellevilloise, Paris
2015 : 3 september - 11 october, Casa de Cultura Laura Alvim, Rio de janeiro
2015 : 28 august - 4 september, “LensCulture Emerging Talents 2015" SF Camerawork, San Francisco
2015 : 5 août - 23 août, The Last Men, the Arts and Crafts Museum, Belo Horizonte, Brésil
2015 : 6-19 july, The Last Men, WIP, Saint-Julien Church, Arles
2015 : 22 june - 22 july, The Last Men, Cultural Center of Sao Paulo, Brazil
2015 : 1st may - 30 june, The Last Men, Expo Milano 2015, Milan, Italy
2015 : 13 june - 16 june, The Last Men, Biennial of Contemporary Art, Mulhouse, France
2015 : 31 march - 9 april, Série Noire, collective exhibition, Cordeliers Research Center, Paris, France
2015 : 11 march - 11 april, The Last Men, collective exhibition, Somerset House, London
2015 : 12 march - 24 march, Série Noire, collective exhibition, Faïencerie, Creil, France
2014 : 10 december - 19 december, The Last Men, collective exhibition, Agnès b. galery, Paris
2014 : 8 november - 19 december, The Last Men, exhibition festival Les Boréales, Granville
2014 : 29 october - 3 november, Série Noire, La recherche de l’Art, collective exhibition, Les Utopiales, Nantes
2014 : 7 - 15 july : Série Noire, La recherche de l’Art, collective exhibition, collaboration between ENSP and INSERM,
National Institute of Health and Medical Research, International photography festival, Arles
2013 : 1-15 july : Falling, collective exhibition, WIP 2013, Saint-Julien Church, Arles
• PROJECTIONS
2015 : 03 november - 10 november, The Last Men, FotoLoft Gallery Moscow
2015 : 9 oct-8 november, The Last Men, Istanbul photo festival
2015 : 6 july, The Last Men, projection Voies Off, archevêché, Arles, France
2015 : 20 june, The Last Men, projection, Les Bains Révélateurs galery, Roubaix, France
2014 : 19 october, The Last Men, projection, Istanbul photo festival, Mimar Sinan Fine Art University, Istanbul
2014 : The Last Men, projection, La ronde de nuit, Aaensp, archevêché, Arles, France
• PUBLICATIONS
The Last Men, Off the wall magazine 7, july 2015
The Last Men, Wired, 1st may 2015
The Last Men, New York Times, 11 march 2015
The Last Men, Photo magazine, february 2015
The Last Men, Libération, 2014
The Last Men, LensCulture, 2014 - 2015
The Last Men, OAI13, august 2014
Série Noire, La recherche de l’art 3, 2014
Falling, Work in Progress 2013, Fermer l’oeil, 2013
Falling, HBA - Webzine de Photographies Argentiques, n°3, 2013
• AWARDS
2015 : Favorite of the jury mentor prize, QPN, Nantes
2015 : Honorable Mention, Moscow international fotography award
2015 : LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards 2015
2015 : 2nd prize "Syngenta Photography Award"
2015 : Editors' Picks LensCulture "exposure awards 2014"
2014 : Fondation Glénat prize
2014 : 2nd prize Erwan Donnelly, Libération
• COLLECTIONS Agnès b.