Nathyfa Michel ()

Nathyfa Michel was born in 1994 in Réunion Island, to a Guianese father and a French mother. Her childhood was shaped by movement and frequent trips to her homeland, which heightened her awareness of issues related to mixed heritage and diasporic trajectories. At 15, she began developing her craft as a self-taught photographer, initially capturing her intimate circles, then blending the personal with the political during her language studies, which took her to New Orleans. In 2019, she returned and settled in French Guiana. This homecoming led her to explore the power dynamics at play in photography, questioning themes of identity, place, and the social construction of the photographic gaze. Since 2022, she has been exploring the connections between resilience, spiritual syncretisms, and mixed identities, focusing on the body as a vessel for transmission, reproduction, but also healing and reinvention.