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Michel Comte Biography
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1954 |
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Born in Zurich, Switzerland
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1978 |
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Comte receives his first international photographic assignment for Paris based fashion labels Ungaro and Chloé
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1979 |
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Comte leave Switzerland and moves to Paris
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1981 |
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Comte relocates to New York, where he beings to work for the American Vogue, later settling down in Los Angeles.
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2003 |
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Photographs the campaign for his own fragrance, Michel Comte Shared Water
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2004 |
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Founds the Michel Comte Water Foundation, a charitable foundation to help provide access to clean drinking water for people in developing countries
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2007 |
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Comte begins his first international film project as director of a Hollywood production
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1981 - 2011 |
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Editorially Comte works mainly for Condé Nast. He not only works as a fashion photographer, but also a celebrity photographer, portraying stars from the worlds of fashion, art, entertainment, music and sports. His subjects include Demi Moore, Sharon Stone, Kim Basinger, Jennifer Lopez, Robert Altman, Sting, Jeremy Irons, Julian Schnabel and Jeff Koons
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1999 - 2011 |
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Comte has traveled to in war zones and unstable regions such as Tibet, Iraq, Afghanistan and Bosnia as a photographer for the International Red Cross. He has developed various charity project in collaboration with the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC).
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2005 - 2006
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Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
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2002
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Centro Internazionale di Fotografia, Verona, Italy
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1995
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Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
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