Vincent
Migeat

Vincent Migeat

biography

Born in 1965 in Valence.

Vincent Migeat began taking photographs at the age of 13.

In 1987, he studied in the photographic image department at the Université de Paris VIII and then undertook an internship at Magnum, where later worked three years as a photo researcher.

After a brief stay with Agence Odyssey, he began in 1992 with the weekly photo service for the Nouvel Observateur, where he continues to work today. At the same time he developed his personal career and became published in the press. He joined Agence VU in 1993. Through themes such as family life, youth , night, and transportation, he has photographed the northern banlieue of Paris.

He has travelled throughout Israel, the Far East, and Europe, and between 1995 and 2002, he has worked extensively in Corsica to publish his book , « C’est encore loin la mer » (postface by Christian Caujolle and edited by Actes-Sud).

Between 2002 and 2009, he worked on a new project focusing on an immigrated Algerian family and undertook an account of their collective memories. Actes-Sud published this book in January 2010.

Regarding his work, Migeat wrote in « Fille de temps » :
«I am a photographer and a photo researcher ; a photographer by passion, and a photo researched by reason. Photography for me represents freedom, or rather the exercise of freedom. Through it, I can mobilise my outlook throughout the world and freely choose to sample a scene. I understand that this is a luxury. »

Series

Corsica, 2019

Series | The Corsica I have in memory is not on the front page of the news. It takes roots somewhere at the end of the 1960s, at 20 kilometres North of Ajaccio, in the Cinarca region where my family comes from.

Childhood, 2007

Series | This entire story begins with a little framed picture, which was at my wife parents’ home. This picture was put down on an old secretaire, and one day I tend to photograph it. When I examined it more precisely, I discover a strange thing...

Notebooks, 2006

Series | A state of mind. A way to travel too. Walking this strange little black box in our steps and feeding it with light.

C'est encore loin la mer ?, 2002

Series | The past overlaps with its discovery. Images of a summer childhood in the Gulf of Sagone emerge against recent photographs of a place and a landscape.

Corsica, 2019

Series | The Corsica I have in memory is not on the front page of the news. It takes roots somewhere at the end of the 1960s, at 20 kilometres North of Ajaccio, in the Cinarca region where my family comes from.

Childhood, 2007

Series | This entire story begins with a little framed picture, which was at my wife parents’ home. This picture was put down on an old secretaire, and one day I tend to photograph it. When I examined it more precisely, I discover a strange thing...

Notebooks, 2006

Series | A state of mind. A way to travel too. Walking this strange little black box in our steps and feeding it with light.

C'est encore loin la mer ?, 2002

Series | The past overlaps with its discovery. Images of a summer childhood in the Gulf of Sagone emerge against recent photographs of a place and a landscape.

Corsica, 2019

Series | The Corsica I have in memory is not on the front page of the news. It takes roots somewhere at the end of the 1960s, at 20 kilometres North of Ajaccio, in the Cinarca region where my family comes from.

Childhood, 2007

Series | This entire story begins with a little framed picture, which was at my wife parents’ home. This picture was put down on an old secretaire, and one day I tend to photograph it. When I examined it more precisely, I discover a strange thing...

Notebooks, 2006

Series | A state of mind. A way to travel too. Walking this strange little black box in our steps and feeding it with light.

C'est encore loin la mer ?, 2002

Series | The past overlaps with its discovery. Images of a summer childhood in the Gulf of Sagone emerge against recent photographs of a place and a landscape.

books

31, rue de la République

Actes Sud - 2009

C'est encore loin la mer?

Actes Sud - 2002

31, rue de la République

Actes Sud - 2009

C'est encore loin la mer?

Actes Sud - 2002

31, rue de la République

Actes Sud - 2009

C'est encore loin la mer?

Actes Sud - 2002