Alain Lefort
Alain Lefort lives and works in Montreal. He has more than twenty years of professional experience in photography. Since 1995, he has held various positions in the field: professional photographer, professional artist in visual arts, teacher, and technician specializing in darkroom printing, as well as assisting numerous Montreal-based and foreign photographers. He holds a master’s degree in visual and media arts from Université du Québec à Montréal and a major in photography from Concordia University.
As a professional artist, he has been showing his work regularly since the beginning of the 1990s. He has more than fifty individual and collective exhibitions to his credit in Québec, elsewhere in Canada and abroad. His work has been acquired by Cirque du Soleil, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Loto-Québec, the Conseil des arts de la ville de Montréal and UMA (The House of Image and Photography). It also been the subject of numerous articles and publications.
Éric Filion
Julien-Robert Legault-Salvail
Johann Mazé
Michel Huneault
Michel Huneault is a documentary photographer and visual artist. His work focuses on development issues, trauma, migration and complex geographical realities, including the impacts of climate change. His artistic practice combines still images, oral histories, video and immersive elements, giving his projects both a humanistic and aesthetic dimension. Her works inform while questioning the act of documentation and representation.
Michel Huneault holds a master's degree from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was a Rotary Peace Fellow, studying the role of collective memory in the aftermath of major trauma. Before devoting himself to photography in 2008, he worked for over a decade in international development.
In 2015, his work on the Lac-Mégantic tragedy was awarded the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize, and published the following year under the title La longue nuit de Mégantic by the Dutch publisher Schilt. In 2016, the Travers Fellowship enabled him to further his research into migration issues across five countries, in collaboration with their diasporas in Canada and their families in their countries of origin. In 2018, he adapted Roxham - his visual and sound project about the passages of asylum seekers from the United States to Canada - into a virtual reality experience with the National Film Board of Canada. In spring-summer 2020, he was commissioned by the McCord Museum to document the impacts of Covid-19 in Montreal.
Isabella Salas
Isabella Salas [she/her] is an interdisciplinary artist, creative director and producer who adopted artificial intelligence in 2020 as her main creative medium to create digital art and immersive experiences.
Recognized for questioning the use and bias of technology, identity, perception, and environmental practices through the use of ancient and new technologies, Isabella was nominated in 2022 for the first CIFO-Ars Electronica Award, which honours artists of Latin-American origin.
Co-founder of the International Digital Arts Alliance, a non-profit organisation that advocates for equal, open, and horizontal representation of digital artists worldwide, she also takes part as a jury member to the digital forum Composite held in Montreal since 2015.
