MICHEL COMTE

ABOUT THE ARTIST

INTRODUCTION

C.V.

PUBLICATIONS

ADDITIONAL CONTEXT

WORKS

Black & White

Colour

Shared Water

ABOUT THE ARTIST

C.V.

1953 born in Zurich. Trained to be professional art restorer
Photography as a profession came to Comte auto didactically
1978 Comte receives his first international photographic assignment for Paris based fashion-labels Ungaro and Chloé
1979 Comte leave Switzerland and moves to Paris
1981 Comte relocates to New York, where he beings to work for the American Vogue, later settling down in Los Angeles. During a fashion shoot Comte meets model Dominique Kamber
since 1981 Editorially Comte works mainly for the publishing group Condé Nast During this time he not only works as a fashion- but also a celebrity photographer, portraying stars from the worlds of fashion, arts, entertainment, music and sports, from Demi Moore, Sharon Stone, Kim Basinger and Jennifer Lopez, over Robert Altman, Sting and Jeremy Irons, to Julian Schnabel or Jeff Koons.
since 1999 Michel Comte travels to and works in war-zones and unstable regions such as the Tibet, Iraq, Afghanistan or Bosnia as photographer for the International Red Cross. In collaboration with the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) various Charity-projects develop
2003 Michel Comte photographs the campaign of his first own fragrance: Michel Comte Shared Water
2004 founding of the, Michel Comte Water Foundation, which functions as a charitable foundation under the supervision of the Swiss government, of which the purpose is to help supply and provide possibilities for people in developing countries to have access to clean drinking water
2007 Comte begins his first international film project as director of an Hollywood production

Exhibits (Selection)

Guggenheim Museum in Venice
Centro Internazionale di Fotografia in Verona
Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich

1953	born in Zurich. Trained to be professional art restorer Photography as a profession came to Comte auto didactically
1978	Comte receives his first international photographic assignment for Paris based fashion-labels Ungaro and Chloé
1979	Comte leave Switzerland and moves to Paris
1981	Comte relocates to New York, where he beings to work for the American Vogue, later settling down in Los Angeles. During a fashion shoot Comte meets model Dominique Kamber
since 1981	Editorially Comte works mainly for the publishing group Condé Nast During this time he not only works as a fashion- but also a celebrity photographer, portraying stars from the worlds of fashion, arts, entertainment, music and sports, from Demi Moore, Sharon Stone, Kim Basinger and Jennifer Lopez, over Robert Altman, Sting and Jeremy Irons, to Julian Schnabel or Jeff Koons.
since 1999	Michel Comte travels to and works in war-zones and unstable regions such as the Tibet, Iraq, Afghanistan or Bosnia as photographer for the International Red Cross. In collaboration with the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) various Charity-projects develop
2003	Michel Comte photographs the campaign of his first own fragrance: Michel Comte Shared Water
2004	founding of the, Michel Comte Water Foundation, which functions as a charitable foundation under the supervision of the Swiss government, of which the purpose is to help supply and provide possibilities for people in developing countries to have access to clean drinking water
2007	Comte begins his first international film project as director of an Hollywood production