Benoit Lalonde | Global Migration Processes

Benoit Lalonde

Benoit Lalonde,
research professional

Benoît Lalonde is a research professional in the Department of Geography at Laval University, Quebec, Canada. His main research interest lies in the geographical distribution of social, environmental, and health inequalities. Benoît is an expert in Graphical Information System (GIS), statistical methods, spatial analysis, and participatory mapping. He has been collaborating since 2017 with Danièle Bélanger and her team to create and implement interactive mapping projects.

Photographic contribution

Michel Huneault is a documentary photographer and visual artist. Before devoting himself entirely to photography starting in 2008, he worked for more than ten years in international development. He holds an M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was a Rotary Peace Fellow, focusing on the role of collective memory in the aftermath of large-scale trauma. First in Berkeley and then in New York, he was a student and assistant to photographer Gilles Peress of the Magnum agency. Today, Michel Huneault is still interested in development, trauma, migration and other complex geographic realities, including the impacts of climate change. In 2016, he was awarded the Travers Foreign Corresponding Fellowship to continue his research on migration issues. In 2018, ROXHAM, his visual and sound project on the passage of asylum seekers from the United States to Canada was adapted into virtual reality by the National Film Board of Canada.