Michel Monteaux is a film first an assistant director in France, prior to settling in Los Angeles in the eighties. There he establishes himself as a professional photographer. He works in the field of editorial and advertising illustration. Eight years later, he opens a studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico and concentrates on portraits and documentary with a particular interest in American and Mexican folk art. He returns to France in the mid-90s, and continues his photographic work for the press and major corporate companies.
He also persues a personal body of work which questions our place in the environment and our relationship to time.
« ... A man of restless questioning about his place among the others, and the place of others in him. This long quest, Michel Monteaux will never let go. It is his motor and his soul. »Fabrice
Gaignault in introduction to the GANDHI EXPRESS exhibition.
