Pierre-Michel Virot, a native of Geneva, reestablished himself in the city in 1997 after spending 10 years in Zurich working mainly for Swiss French magazines, newspapers and performing Fine Art black&white studio work.

He lived throughout Europe, Japan and the United States and travelled several years for the World Health Organization, mainly in Africa, in Asia, the middle East and South America.

Alongside to his activities at the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva, he focuses on Custom Portraiture, Corporate Identity, Commercial, Glamour and Art Images. Other photographic interests are Publicity, Special Events and Assignments on Locations.

Pierre speaks French, English, German and Italian.
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Permanent exhibition room at Musée Riattu, Arles, France (les rencontres de la photographie), Several exhibitions in 2000, following the nominations of two pictures at the 4th Swiss Professional Photographers Award 1999 as well as several exhibitions for the World Health Organization in Geneva, in Ethiopia, India and China. See also under "actual" in the "contact" page.

His work has been featured in Swiss publications such as TELL, Le Nouveau Quotidien, Le Temps, L'Illustré, L'Hebdo, Hors Ligne, Schweizer Woche, Schweizer Illustrierte and most of the daily newspapers. Internationally, his work has appeared in the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, The Financial Times, Yomiuri Shimbun, Entrevue, Divas, Africa International, Action Press, WHO Media Center, and many other publications around the world via the REUTERS photographic agency.

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