Michel Delsol, born in Paris, works and lives in New York City, has a degree in film semiotics and linguistics. He studied with Roy DeCavara and apprenticed to Arnold Newman.
Michel's portrait book ‘Edges of the Rainbow: LGBTQ Japan' documents the diversity of LGBTQ culture and activism in contemporary Japan. Hilton Als, critic and curator has written about it: "The exquisite humanity in this book transcends all geographical and cultural difference to show us what is universal in ourselves, and germane to place. A triumph of insight and heart."
He has had solo exhibits of his portrait and landscape work in New York, Washington, D.C., Paris , Italy and Japan, as well as participated in group exhibits at 'Sheltered Gardens', Athens, Greece , the I. C. A. in London, the Museum of the city of Munich and the Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany, Getty Images gallery London and New York.
His work was shortlisted for the Hariban Award and has received the judges award from The Society of Publication designers, and awards from Px3, Prix de la Photographie Paris and the Tokyo International Foto Awards.
