The other side of the lens.

Born in Paris in 1974, Guillaume Saint-Michel was first the one being photographed. An international model, he has worked for Levi's alongside Justin Timberlake, for Bvlgari alongside Bella Hadid, for Marlboro, Kruder and Zancan, walked for Billionaire in Milan and worked with photographers such as Glen Luchford and Michel Comte — and worked as an actor, on screen in « Il reste du jambon ? » by Anne Depétrini, « Si j'étais un homme » by Audrey Dana and a cameo in « Tout ce qui brille » by Géraldine Nakache and Hervé Mimran, in Kyo's music video « Le Graal » and in commercials, including several for Renault and Air France's, directed by Romain Quirot.

Spending his days on set, he watched photographers work: where the light goes, the moment a face lets go, the way a whole crew serves a single image. Then he picked up the camera.

Today Guillaume Saint-Michel is a fashion and portrait photographer based in Paris. His work has been published — including a Grazia Philippines Men cover in 2024 and a portrait of May Barr for Voraka Magazine in 2025 — and he still models for his agencies. His edge: he knows exactly what the person in front of him is going through. He directs his models the way he would have liked to be directed.

Based in

Paris

Agencies

Paris · Munich

Published

Grazia