Bio

Bio

Gilles Mingasson grew up in Grenoble, France, before moving to Paris to pursue photojournalism. After he was sent to the U.S. on assignment, Gilles traveled through Latin America before making Los Angeles his base.

In 1990, Gilles headed East and spent six months bicycling 7,500 miles across the Soviet Union with two cameras. On the eve of profound changes few of them had yet to grasp, Gilles photographed ordinary people who had lived their entire lives under the Soviet state.

Today, Gilles shoots features, environmental portraits, production stills, travel, corporate and advertising, and works on social issues through assignments and personal projects. Gilles shoots 35mm and medium format. He speaks English, Spanish and French. Assignments have taken him to Asia, Australia, Latin America, Europe, India, the Caribbean, and North Africa.

In 2005, Gilles Mingasson's work on Latinos in the U.S. won an American Photography Award. From 2006 to 2008, his pictures of an Eskimo village threatened by climate change were featured at the International Center of Photography in New York, and traveled in Europe and the U.S. as part of an United Nations exhibit.

A freelancer, Mingasson is a member of Global Assignments by Getty Images.

Clients include : National Geographic Books, Time, The Smithsonian, Challenge, VSD, L'Equipe Magazine, Le Figaro Magazine, Paris Match, Der Spiegel, Focus, Discovery Channel, BBC America, Scripps Networks, Mark Burnett Productions, Advanced Bionics, Microsoft, the NFL, Target, Bechtel.

Exhibits:

• The End of Shishmaref—Global Warming

2007: Nobel Peace Center, Olso | Bozar

Museum, Brussel. 2008: Ministry of Culture, Monaco | Field Museum, Chicago | Wave Hiil, New York.

• The End of Shishmaref—Global Warming,

ICP, New York, 2006- 2007.

• The End of Shishmaref—Global Warming, Istanbul Slide Show Days, 2006.

• Montreal Metropolis (30 international

photojournalists photograph Montreal for Eyes On book publisher).

• Moments Between Millenniums (10

photographers document ordinary people in Los Angeles on the night of the Millennium change), project organizer and co-curator: Los Angeles Public Library, 2000.

Film documentaries:

The Executioners (a film on people who apply the death penalty in the U.S.), for Capa and France2.

The NASCAR Dads, for France2-Envoyé Spécial.