À propos / About

Melissa Decaire est une auteure, réalisatrice & photographe Canadienne. Elle vit & travaille dans un tiers-lieu transfrontalier à Strasbourg, France.

I'm a Canadian author, documentary filmmaker and photographer, living in a Cross-Border Third Place in France.

Short Bio

I am a member of La Scam* since 2009 and member of ADAGP Paris since 2019.

My work is distinguished by the constant attention that I pay to the question of heritage and landscape as human values. While documenting the diversity and complexity of reality,

I create sensitive series, often photo-texts projects of autobiographical nature.

I have been resident of Wyspa’s foundation in Poland and in the Pays des Collines residency in Belgium, supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.

Between 2019 and 2022, I took FotoMasterclass and Fotobook Masterclass sessions with

FLORE, Adrian Claret, Sylvie Hugues along with

Marie Sepchat (M) editions and Eric Cez (Editions Loco) in Paris.

My work was shown in France, Germany, Italy and Belgium as part of the 18th Icomos/Unesco International Scientific Symposium 2014, photo competitions, published in “10 years of photography” of "La Chambre" 2021, then at the 32nd “Itinéraires des Photographes Voyageurs” Festival 2023.

Currently, from my« photographic landscape observatory » located in the Rhine port of Strasbourg,

I focus on the evolution of the « ZAC des Deux-Rives » area, leading publishing and installation projects of various scales, notably with the collaboration of the LinCS / CNRS.

I also lead activities commissioned or sponsored by Real estate developers and Architecture Agencies.