Michel Monteaux

“At the end of 1979, while assistant director for cinema, Michel Monteaux left France and began a career as a professional photographer in Los Angeles. Eight years later, he moved to New Mexico, in the High Desert near Santa Fe. While he continued to do still life in the studio, he expanded his work to include portraiture and photojournalism.

During the six years he lived close to Native Americans, embracing their culture, he became involved in a fight against their precarious situation and, alongside ordinary citizens as well as personalities like Robert Redford, he campaigned against the gigantic project of nuclear waste disposal in southern New Mexico.

In the mid-90s, he returned to France and worked for the press (Libération, Marie-Claire, La Vie, Le Monde, Géo, Elle…) but also for major industrial groups (Alstom, ArcelorMittal, Total, Hachette, Saint-Gobain, Lafarge…)

Michel Monteaux tirelessly seeks to share his feelings about the upheavals of the geopolitical world, of a society now caught in a desperate race while our environment tells us to slow down and reflect on the world we need to transform…

This will be obvious to anyone interested in his work. His work is not guided solely by an aesthetic search. It is imbued with who the photographer is, what he feels, his relationship with others, with the environment, with society, with the world around him…” Pierre Evrard