Léa Michaëlis is represented by the French press agency REA
Self-taught, Léa Michaëlis started photography around the age of 9, pushed by her father, of whom she produced portraits. At 13, she was published twice by the magazine Le chasseur d'Images. She then made three exhibitions in the South of France where she is from (June 2013, January 2014, August 2015). In 2016, a year after the death of her father, she set up an exhibition in tribute to her dad on the theme of passing time.
She then evolves in her photographic style by turning to the staging. Léa was appointed artistic director of the Coquelicot Revue. She moved to Lyon for a year and left for Paris to study in the artistic field.
In July 2019, she met and worked with Charlotte Abramow during a workshop during the Rencontres photo d'Arles. She was noticed by the Fisheye photo magazine and quickly abandoned her studies to launch herself as a freelance photojournalist.
From March 2021 to March 2023, she worked for the French press agency ENCRAGE and has since collaborated regularly with the press (La Déferlante, El País, ELLE, Paulette...).
In October 2021, « Notre colère sur vos murs » is published, a collective work of the Collages Féminicides Paris movement published by Denoël, illustrated with a hundred of her photos and those of Tay Calenda.
Since April 2023, Léa Michaëlis has been represented by the French press agency REA.
