Gabriel Bergevin-Estable

Gabriel is starting a master’s degree in Geography at Laval University, Quebec, in 2022, under the supervision of Danièle Bélanger. He is interested in Canada’s adoption of new decision support softwares (automation, triage, algorithmic learning, artificial intelligence) and their impact on administrative decision makers discretionary power well as on migration dynamics.

From 2010 to 2015, Gabriel Bergevin-Estable held various positions in the Montreal community related to IT and immigration, notably in the pilot project ‘Réseautage 2.0’ funded by the MICC (Défi Montréal). Since 2015, he has been working as a constituency assistant at the federal level, specializing in immigration files. He became a Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant (RCIC) in 2021.

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.