School of Communication
Visual Communication Department
www.josephinemichel.com

Joséphine Michel studied philosophy at the Université Paris-Sorbonne and photography at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in Arles.

Her first book/DVD, Lude, was published by Filigranes Editions in 2007.

Working as a free-lance photographer, she has recently made visual counterpoints for Ligeti’s Lontano and Schubert’s Winterreise (Concertgebouw Brugge), and made the cover photograph for Mika Vainio’s Fe 3O4 – Magnetite (Touch). She has also collaborated several times with Le Monde des Livres.

Recent exhibitions include: Halfway to White, Rencontres d’Arles, 2012; Fieldwork II, Exhibition Road, London, 2012; Show RCA, Royal College of Art, 2012; Objectified, Charlie Smith Gallery, 2012; Fieldwork, Regency Town House, Brighton, 2011; New Knowledge, Royal College of Art, London, 2011.

Recent publications include: ‘Layers in Tension: The Photographs of Joséphine Michel’ by the filmmaker and author Nicky Hamlyn, Sequence 3, no-w-here, 2012; Rencontres d’Arles, catalogue, 2012; Qu’avez-vous fait de la photographie? 30 ans de l’E.N.S.P., Actes Sud, 2012; 'Roy Exley interviews Joséphine Michel', Photomonitor, 2011.