Mathieu Asselin

Asselin began his career working on film productions in Caracas, Venezuela{{cite web|accessdate=2018-10-21|title=MATHIEU ASSELIN"MONSANTO: A PHOTOGRAPHIC INVESTIGATION" - FFFrankfurt|url=https://www.fffrankfurt.com/aktuell/prd.46.mathieu-asselin-monsanto-a-photographic-investigation--div/|website=www.fffrankfurt.com}} and then as a photographer in Europe.{{cite web|first1=Mathieu Asselin |last1=LensCulture|accessdate=2018-10-21|title=Mathieu Asselin|url=https://www.lensculture.com/mathieu-asselin|website=LensCulture}} He currently works as a photographer in New York City.

In 2011 Asselin photographed Occupy Wall Street protestors in Zuccotti Park, using a small open-air studio.{{cite news | language=de | url=https://www.freitag.de/autoren/der-freitag/99-prozent-das-sind-wir | title=99 Prozent? Das sind wir! |last=Saur|first=Mathieu Asselin and Michael| newspaper=Der Freitag | year=2011 | access-date=5 October 2017}} The same year he made portraits of people who had lived through the 2011 Joplin tornado in Joplin, Missouri.{{cite web|title=Mathieu Asselin, portrait of a tornado's path|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/mathieu-asselin-portrait-of-a-tornados-path|website=newyorker.com|date=22 June 2011|access-date=5 October 2017}}

In 2014, he was Artist in Residence with Imagine Science Films.{{cite web|url=http://www.emahomagazine.com/2014/08/mathieu-asselin-monsanto-a-photographic-investigation/|title=Mathieu Asselin: Monsanto – A Photographic Investigation|publisher=|access-date=2016-02-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160203041833/http://www.emahomagazine.com/2014/08/mathieu-asselin-monsanto-a-photographic-investigation/|archive-date=2016-02-03|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.worldphoto.org/profile/mathieuasselin/|title=Mathieu Asselin – World Photography Organisation|website=worldphoto.org|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308052141/http://www.worldphoto.org/profile/mathieuasselin/|archivedate=2016-03-08}}

For his book Monsanto: A Photographic Investigation, Asselin spent five years photographing the damaged landscape around Anniston, Alabama, caused by a Monsanto chemical factory.{{cite web|first1=Sean|last1=O'Hagan|accessdate=2018-10-21|title=Toxic neighbour: Monsanto and the poisoned town|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/apr/20/mathieu-asselin-monsanto-deutsche-borse-anniston-alabama|date=20 April 2018|website=The Guardian}}{{cite web|first1=Sean|last1=O'Hagan|accessdate=2018-10-21|title=Sean O'Hagan's best photography books of 2017|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/17/sean-ohagan-best-photography-books-2017-buzzing-at-sill-monsanto|date=17 December 2017|website=The Guardian}}{{cite web | language=fr | website=liberation.fr | url=http://www.liberation.fr/photographie/2017/08/10/monsanto-cent-dix-ans-de-pratiques-devastatrices_1586922 | title=Monsanto, cent-dix ans de pratiques dévastatrices | date=10 August 2017 | access-date=5 October 2017}} Sean O'Hagan, writing in The Guardian, described it as "a powerful indictment of corporate power and ecological irresponsibility",{{cite web|first1=Sean|last1=O'Hagan|accessdate=2018-10-21|title=So what's the most expensive shot ever? The best photography shows of 2018|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/jan/03/so-whats-the-most-expensive-shot-ever-the-best-photography-shows-of-2018|date=3 January 2018|website=The Guardian}} "a book about corporate impunity that unfolds through the deft interweaving of Asselin’s own images and a wealth of found material, from personal testimonies to courtroom files." O'hagan included it in his "best photography books of 2017".

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• Monsanto: A Photographic Investigation. With the contribution of Ricardo Baez (designer) and Frédérique Wallis Davy (writer).
• Dortmund, Germany: Kettler, 2017. {{ISBN|978-3-86206-657-5}}. English edition.
• Monsanto: une Enquête Photographique. Arles, France: Actes Sud, 2017. {{ISBN|978-2-330-07805-8}}. French edition.

• 2012: Portrait of a Tornado Path, See Gallery, New York
• 2013: Portraits of Tornado Path, Indie Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel{{cite web|last1=Indie|accessdate=2018-10-21|title=Indie - Past Exhibitions - Mathieu Asselin|url=http://www.galleryindie.com/en/past-exhibitions/25|website=Indie}}
• 2016: The Ninety-Nine Percent, Breda Photo Festival. Breda, Holland{{cite news|accessdate=2018-10-21|title=Mathieu Asselin - BredaPhoto|url=https://www.bredaphoto.nl/edition-2016/photographers/mathieu-asselin/?lang=en|newspaper=BredaPhoto}}
• 2017: Monsanto, une enquête photographique, Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France{{Cite web|url=https://www.rencontres-arles.com/en/expositions/view/145/mathieu-asselin|title=Mathieu Asselin}}{{cite web | last=Peces | first=Juan | url=http://www.bjp-online.com/2017/07/monsanto-mathieu-asselin/ | title=Arles 2017: Monsanto. A photographic investigation by Mathieu Asselin | website=bjp-online.com (British Journal of Photography) | date=10 July 2017 | access-date=5 October 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171004034750/http://www.bjp-online.com/2017/07/monsanto-mathieu-asselin/ | archive-date=4 October 2017 | url-status=dead }}{{cite web | language=fr | url=http://www.geo.fr/photos/reportages-geo/pcb-agent-orange-agrochimie-monsanto-l-histoire-d-un-desastre-sanitaire-178469 | title=Monsanto : l'histoire d'un désastre sanitaire |last=Prévôt|first=Faustine| website=geo.fr | date=5 September 2017 | access-date=5 October 2017}}
• 2017: Monsanto, une enquête photographique, Hangar J1, Marseille, France{{Cite web |title=Presentation_ExpositionRA_EN |url=https://mj1.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Pr%C3%A9sentation_RA_version_anglais.pdf |access-date=February 23, 2024 |website=mj1.fr}}
• 2019: Stock Market, National Centre for Photography during Ballarat International Foto Biennale{{Cite web|title=Mathieu Asselin [FRA] Stock Market {{!}} BALLARAT INTERNATIONAL FOTO BIENNALE|url=https://2019.ballaratfoto.org/events/mathieu-asselin/|access-date=2021-01-28|website=2019.ballaratfoto.org}}

• Plat(t)form, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland, 2014{{cite web|accessdate=2018-10-21|title=Mathieu Asselin - Artists - Plat(t)form - Explore - Fotomuseum Winterthur|url=https://www.fotomuseum.ch/en/explore/platform/artists/11318_mathieu_asselin|website=www.fotomuseum.ch}}

• 2017: Finalist, Deutsche Börse Photography Prize for Monsanto: A Photographic Investigation{{cite news|accessdate=21 October 2018|title=Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2018|url=https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibition/deutsche-borse-photography-foundation-prize-2018|newspaper=The Photographers' Gallery|date=27 November 2017}}{{cite news|first1=Deutsche Börse Photography|last1=Foundation|accessdate=21 October 2018|title=Deutsche Börse photography prize shortlist 2018 – in pictures|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/dec/01/deutsche-borse-photography-prize-shortlist-2018|newspaper=The Guardian|date=1 December 2017|issn=0261-3077|via=www.theguardian.com}}{{cite web|accessdate=21 October 2018|title=Shortlist announced for 2018 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize|url=http://www.bjp-online.com/2017/11/shortlist-announced-for-2018-deutsche-borse-photography-foundation-prize/|website=www.bjp-online.com}}
• 2017: Winner, First PhotoBook award, Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards{{cite web|accessdate=2018-10-21|title=Mathieu Asselin - PARIS PHOTO|url=https://www.parisphoto.com/en/fair/news/photobook-awards-2017-the-laureates/Mathieu-Asselin/|date=10 November 2017|website=www.parisphoto.com}}{{cite web|accessdate=2018-10-21|title=Interview with Mathieu Asselin, winner of the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation First PhotoBook Award|url=http://www.bjp-online.com/2017/11/monsanto-mathieu-asselin/|website=www.bjp-online.com}}

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• [http://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/gallery/24961/0/monsanto-by-mathieu-asselin Photographs from Monsanto] at Dazed

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