Michel Lawrence (b.1948) was born in Kings Cross, Sydney and raised in Canterbury, Melbourne. He began photographing things with his Box Brownie at school. At La Trobe University he was founding editor of the student newspaper Rabelais and was later a journalist at the Australian. He is currently Executive Creative Director and Vice Chairman of the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson and published a book called Framed - Photographs of Australian Artists by Michel Lawrence in 1998.