Nathyfa Michel is a Caribbean photographer born in 1994 in Réunion Island, to a Guianese father and a French mother. Her childhood, shaped by movements between France and French Guiana, heightened her awareness of issues related to mixed heritage and diasporic trajectories. She returned to live in French Guiana in 2019 after Anglicist studies between Paris and New Orleans. Self-taught in photography, her practice focuses on the intricate layers of Caribbean and Amazonian identity at the intersection of intimate and collective history. She explores dynamics of transmission, searching for a “home” reinvented through rhizomatic and hybrid imagination. Her work blends archives, photography, writing, and collage to investigate the circulation and transformation of memories in diasporic and post-colonial contexts.

Member of the Fotokontré 2022 residency program and finalist of the Filles de la Photo mentorship in 2024, she exhibited in 2023 at the Rencontres Photographiques de Guyane, and in 2024 at the B-Home Gallery in Senegal during the Off of the Biennale de Dakar, at the WOPHA Congress in Miami, and at the Fototras festival in Guadeloupe. In 2024, she received an Individual Creation Grant from the DRAC Guyane for the development of her project Dans ma chair, un pays.

Nathyfa Michel’s residency at El Espacio 23 is presented in partnership with Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA) and La Station Culturelle (Martinique).