1. Michel Alfred Comte was born on 19 February 1954 and is a Swiss artist, filmmaker, fashion and portrait photographer.
13 Facts About Michel Comte
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Michel Comte directed and produced his first feature film in 3D, The Girl from Nagasaki - a retelling of the classic opera Madama Butterfly, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014.
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Away from the high-gloss magazines and his campaigns for luxury brands, Michel Comte kept himself grounded by taking on photo assignments for the International Red Cross in war-ravaged regions like Bosnia, Angola, Rwanda and Somalia.
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Two decades ago, Michel Comte decided to wind down most of his activities as a commercial photographer to focus on Light, his most recent art project.
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Michel Comte's father was a field sales representative and later board member of his photo studio Michel Comte SA.
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Michel Comte studied in England and in France, then started his career in contemporary art restoration, specializing in the works of Andy Warhol and Yves Klein.
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Michel Comte was interested in photography and when moving to Paris in 1979, he was discovered by Karl Lagerfeld, who gave him first international assignment for the fashion house of Chloe.
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Michel Comte then started working for such publications as Vogue US, Vogue Italia, Per Lui, Vanity Fair, and fashion houses such as Emanuel Ungaro, Chanel, Giorgio Armani and so on.
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Michel Comte produced many portraits including Jeremy Irons, Louise Bourgeois, Mike Tyson, Akira Kurosawa, Sharon Stone, Carla Bruni, Naomi Campbell, Helena Christensen, Miles Davis, Vanessa Paradis.
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Michel Comte was awarded as Photographer of the year 2000 by PHOTO magazine.
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Michel Comte is involved in and known for his photo-reportage and documentary work.
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Michel Comte traveled in conflict areas such as Bosnia, Kosovo, South Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan and many others.
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Michel Comte directed and produced his first feature film in 3D, The Girl from Nagasaki, retelling of the classic opera, Madame Butterfly, in which Puccini's tragic heroine, emerging from the ashes of the atomic bomb, begins her fateful story of obsession for an American pilot.