Michaël Zumstein, French-Swiss photographer was born in 1970. He graduated from the Ecole Supérieure de Photographie de Vevey (Switzerland).
Whether working on commission for the French or International press or on his personal projects, Michael Zumstein’s photographic work follows an heritage of photojournalism and objective observation, which allows him to honestly render situations and to go beyond stereotypes.
While following the conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Ivory Coast, and Sudan, he chooses to focus his photography on the « ambiguous relations between Africa and the West ».
In 2014, he carried out a large report about the Crisis in Central African Republic, in three parts.
Along with his work on the African continent, Michaël Zumstein covers French political and social news. For nearly two year, he has covered a series of stories on the Cité des Courtilières in Pantin, one of Paris’ hottest suburbs. Witnessing the tensions between the youth and the police, he was of the first to cover the violent demonstrations of 2005 in Paris’ suburbs of Villiers-le-Bel or Clichy-sous-Bois.
Le Monde newspaper gave him the 2007 coverage of the presidential election and he has continued, since then, to follow current social and political events for different newspapers who rely on him to produce reportages where the use of where sensibility and rigor are indispensable.
Besides his photography, Michaël Zumstein also runs photographic workshops in Africa for World Press Photo and work on the African continent with several NGOs (Médecins Sans Frontières - MSF) and organisations (UNICEF).
In September 2014, he exhibited his work « Terror and Tears in the Central African Republic » at the Festival Visa pour l’Image in Perpignan.
Read more, watch more or listen more on Michaël Zumstein's work :
- https://www.facebook.com/zumsteinmichael
- http://www.france24.com/en/20140905-visa-pour-limage-photojournalism-festival-perpignan-central-african-republic-zumstein-terdjman/
- http://cnnphotos.blogs.cnn.com/2014/02/02/a-country-spiraling-out-of-control/
- http://www.rts.ch/emissions/religion/faut-pas-croire/5546888-centrafrique-la-spirale-de-la-haine-interreligieuse.html
- http://www.rfi.fr/afrique/20140908-michael-zumstein-photojournalisme-centrafrique-information-medias/
http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/photo/20140829.OBS7627/centrafrique-le-sang-n-est-pas-la-preuve-que-la-photo-est-bonne.html
