Camille Michel

• SCHOOLS
2012-2015 : National School of Photography, Arles.
2009-2012 : University Paris 8, Photography, Paris
Camille Michel
• EXHIBITIONS
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 : 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 : 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.
Camille Michel was born near Lille in northern France in 1988. She studied medicine before
discovering the visual arts and photography. She studied at the University Paris VIII and at the
National School of Photography in Arles. For her, the purpose of photography is to tell stories :
Stories not entirely true, not entirely false either, but stories which speak of the current
state of the world. She’s very curious about the daily life of small communities or people
who live far away from modern life, isolated, and differently from us. (Their lifestyle their
beliefs their traditions but also their changes and their problems...) For several years
she traveled to the Great North. She went to Lapland where she discovered the Sami
culture, then she decided to live on an isolated and mysterious island north of Greenland.
She’s inspired by those small villages away from the world, often plunged into boredom and oversight.
She try to recreate the atmosphere of those strange places through photography and video, also
giving her own point of view on the place. She often speak of “poetic document” to characterize her
work. She consider the photograph like a poet using his own experiences to describe the world...
She’s inspired by the works of Alec Soth, Evgenia Arbugaeva, Lucas Foglia, Corey Arnold...
Her work is published in New York Times Magazine, Wired, Photo Magazine, Libération...
She was awarded many prizes including the Syngenta Photography Award, LensCulture
Emerging Talent Awards, Libération Erwan Donnely prize, “la fondation Glénat” prize and
“La Filature, biennale de Mulhouse” prize. Her work has been exhibited in France, England,
USA, Italy, Brazil. She will have her first major solo exhibition at the Filature in Mulhouse in 2017.
Member of the studio Hans Lucas since 2015.