Z Lab & Mikemuka
In the press
The Belgian and international press has followed the studio since 2018: the Piezography process, the exhibitions, and the passing on of forty years of craft.
October 2025
Paris Match
La semaine de Match
Visual Gallery — the world according to Zahara
« More than their work, it is the artists and their personality that fascinate me. »
In the middle of the Covid crisis, Zahara Micheli took up the torch by opening her own photo laboratory, Z Lab, and later the Visual Gallery on rue de Tervaete — a space for young photographers and emerging artists.
Par Philippe Fiévet
January 2024
Paris Match
Excellence belge
Jean-Jacques Micheli, magical blacks and whites
« Every shadow, every shade of grey is visual poetry that portrays life in its most eloquent simplicity. »
The only laboratory in Belgium producing large-format Piezo prints up to 170 × 110 cm. Regulars include Serge Anton, Olivier Dassault, Mireille Roobaert, Jean-Dominique Burton and the Fondation Picasso.
Par Philippe Fiévet
May 2018
2 pagesParis Match
Culture Match
Mikemuka, or the work in black
« We are talking here about more than 150 years of preservation. »
A new process is transforming photography and fine art photography alike. After nearly forty years at the head of his Brussels laboratory, Jean-Jacques Micheli founded with Zahara Mukagikwiye a studio specialising in black and white prints made with carbon pigments.
Par Frédéric Loore
January 2018
Le Vif
Dans le viseur
Le noir plus ultra
« A magnificent journey into the land of contrasts. »
Twenty-three artists exhibit at Nardone photographs that all passed through the Mikemuka studio — among them Serge Anton, Sophie Voituron, Olivia Droeshaut, Thomas Gunzig and Philippe Berkenbaum.
Retour au charbon — Galerie Nardone, Bruxelles