Isabelle Merminod is a photojournalist who specialise in social issues and political movements.

During the late 1980s and early 1990s she worked in Chile during and after the dictatorship. She created and presented 5 slideshows in different European countries on:
the violation of human rights; the demonstrations of the families of disappeared prisoners; political prisoners; the life of the political prisoners during and after the dictatorship; the funerals of Salvador Allende; the movement Sebastian Acevedo against the Torture, etc.

After this work in Chile, she coordinated a NGO for 8 years working with people detained under the Immigration Act in UK. Then she lived in Peru and Bolivia, and returned with photos of: Amazonian children working in the street; home workers defending their basic rights; and the work done in primary health in isolated or deprived communities.

After working and researching on the subject during 3 years, she exhibited a photographic exhibition on the damaging effects of immigration detention at the Spitz Gallery in East London in January 2006. The exhibition was then presented in different cities in UK as well as in different venues in London like the Amnesty International Human Rights Centre.

She also completed a reportage on the health department of a notorious prison in Peru, built 40 years ago for 1500 prisoners and accommodating at the time more than 8500 prisoners.

In 2007 she went back and reported on the new health centre of the prison - with a population that had reached almost 10 000.

Also another important part of her work is life and survival around the nuclear power station, Chernobyl, that overheated and exploded on the 26th of April 1986. Her reportage in Ukraine and Belarus, includes: photos of children in cancer hospital; schools in the highly contaminated zone at the border with the dead zone or exclusion zone; the ghost city of Pripyat; the half sarcophagus of the nuclear power station number 4 Chernobyl, and much more.

Her work took her also to the African continent, in Uganda and Rwanda, working specially on Peace and Conflict Resolution. She followed a conference in Kampala for African women coming from countries well known for their dictatorships, genocide, apartheid and civil war. In Rwanda she met women working intensely on their differences and similarities in the optimistic aftermath of the genocide.

Her work brought her also to European social movements - citizens demonstrating in defence of their rights, or merely their anger at the attack on their rights. These social movements are usually less known but they focus on the daily reality lived by many citizens.