Michel Huneault is a documentary photographer and contemporary visual artist. His work focuses on issues related to development, trauma, migration, and other geographically complex realities, including the impact of climate change.

Michel has a master’s degree from the University of California Berkeley, where he was a Rotary Peace Fellow studying the role of collective memory after large-scale traumatic events. Before devoting himself to photography full-time in 2008, he worked in international development for more than a decade.

His long-term project on the Lac-Mégantic train disaster won the 2015 Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize and was published the following year by Schilt Publishing in a book titled The Long Night of Mégantic. In 2016, the Travers Fellowship enabled him to deepen his research into migratory issues, working across five countries, in collaboration with members of their diasporas in Canada and their families in their countries of origin. In 2018, he adapted Roxham—his photographic and binaural sound project about asylum seekers crossing the border from the United States to Canada—into a virtual-reality experience with the National Film Board of Canada. In the spring of 2020, the McCord Museum commissioned him to document the impact of Covid-19 on Montreal.