Michel Huneault is based in Montréal. His work combines strategies from documentary photography and visual art. Committed to a personal and collaborative approach, he brings together still images, oral histories, and immersive elements in both physical and virtual installations. Recent projects have investigated our contemporary relationship with bodies of water and coastal living.

Before devoting himself to photography, he pursued a career in international cooperation for more than a decade as a researcher, analyst, and project manager. During this period, he worked in more than 20 countries, including Afghanistan, where he spent an entire year in Kandahar. Michel has an MA in Latin American Studies from the University of California Berkeley, where he was a Rotary Peace Fellow studying the role of collective memory after large-scale traumatic events. Along the way, he studied under and assisted Magnum photographer Gilles Peress at Berkeley and in New York City.

Recipient of the 2015 Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize for his work on the Lac-Mégantic tragedy, Huneault has exhibited nationally (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, McCord Stewart Museum) and internationally (Rencontres d’Arles, Images Vevey, Tokyo Arts and Space). In 2017, he collaborated with the National Film Board of Canada on a virtual reality adaptation of Roxham, his photographic and sound project documenting asylum seekers crossing from the U.S. into Canada.