Michel Séméniako (born 11 October 1944 in Annecy) is a visual photographer. He lives and works in Vitry-sur-Seine. Michel Sémeniako is a Nyctalope photographer. At night, he explores space, model and painted using the colored light beam A flashlight. The real offers it forms, enlightening them creates fictions. It thus erases the boundaries between real and imaginary and invites us to re-appropriate the place. His second area of research is of social inspiration. He wonders on the social fabric and more specifically on the relationship between identity and otherness. To this end, he made several series of "negotiated photographs" where the photographed subject participates actively creating the image around a proposal put forward by Michel Séméniako, thus becoming co-author of the images produced. Michel Séméniako is represented by Signatures. He was awarded the Nadar Prize in 1993 for his work Gods of the Night. After studying in Grenoble, Michel Séméniako played the role of the revisionist in Jean-Luc Godard's La Chinese (1967). In the 1970s and 1980s, he directed numerous audiovisual works, of which Jean-Jacques Birgé composed music, before returning to photography. He's a light-painting fan. He lives with photographer Marie-Jésus Diaz. In 1997 the CD-Rom Cardboard de Birgé Vitet is entirely composed of his photographs and his work in general made interactive thanks to Étienne Minor and Antoine Schmitt.
