Michael Flomen

Michael Flomen was born in Montreal in 1952 and lives and works in Montreal and New York City. He has been exhibiting his works regularly since 1972 in the United States, Canada and Europe. Flomen’s work can be found in numerous private and public collections, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Santa Barbara Museum, George Eastman House, Whitney Museum of American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the National Gallery of Canada.

Since the late 1960s, Flomen has been experimenting with photography. For two decades he worked in the decisive moment style of street photography practiced by Cartier-Bresson and Gary Winogrand, among others. By the early 1990s, he started using large format cameras to photograph the landscape, particularly the rural snow fields and urban snow depositories of his native Montreal. In 1999, Flomen began using camera-less techniques as a means of making pictures, “collaborating” with nature in creating photograms directly outdoors in the countryside.