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Valentine Zeler
Photographer
After a year in journalism school in Paris where I learned the basics of radio and video, I decided to turn to my passion, photography.
In 2016, at my eighteenth birthday, it is during a reportage made alone in India on the condition of women that the change takes place. I understand the power of photography: the good it can do and the reactions it generates. This work was awarded the François Chalais Young Reporter Prize in the Photography category. Following this, I was able to complete a three-month internship at Agence France Presse (AFP) in Paris and learn news photography in the field. Since then, I occasionally collaborate with their office in Strasbourg.
But it’s after a training with the D.U “Photodocumentary and transmedia writings” in Carcassonne that I decide to launch myself as a freelancer and join in April 2018 the Hans Lucas Studio. This gateway allowed me to make my first publications in large editorial offices such as The Guardian, NRC, Le Monde, Libération, La Croix or even Le Figaro.
I have always aspired to make documentaries, whether in photography or video. I followed a training course on documentary writing at the CEFPF, a course supported by the Grand-Est region. I was named winner of the Hopl’Awards 2020 with my photographic documentary “Pour ne jamais oublier,” about the memorial reenactments in Normandy.
Today my work revolves around memory, and the notion of landscape in the mountains. I am currently working on a photographic series called “our interior landscapes”, whose theme is the impact of climate change on the inhabitants of the Vosges mountains. The project is supported by the Ministry of Culture via the Drac and Nop-Grand Est and will be exhibited in May 2023.
Valentine Zeler
Photographer
After a year in journalism school in Paris where I learned the basics of radio and video, I decided to turn to my passion, photography.
In 2016, at my eighteenth birthday, it is during a reportage made alone in India on the condition of women that the change takes place. I understand the power of photography: the good it can do and the reactions it generates. This work was awarded the François Chalais Young Reporter Prize in the Photography category. Following this, I was able to complete a three-month internship at Agence France Presse (AFP) in Paris and learn news photography in the field. Since then, I occasionally collaborate with their office in Strasbourg.
But it’s after a training with the D.U “Photodocumentary and transmedia writings” in Carcassonne that I decide to launch myself as a freelancer and join in April 2018 the Hans Lucas Studio. This gateway allowed me to make my first publications in large editorial offices such as The Guardian, NRC, Le Monde, Libération, La Croix or even Le Figaro.
I have always aspired to make documentaries, whether in photography or video. I followed a training course on documentary writing at the CEFPF, a course supported by the Grand-Est region. I was named winner of the Hopl’Awards 2020 with my photographic documentary “Pour ne jamais oublier,” about the memorial reenactments in Normandy.
Today my work revolves around memory, and the notion of landscape in the mountains. I am currently working on a photographic series called “our interior landscapes”, whose theme is the impact of climate change on the inhabitants of the Vosges mountains. The project is supported by the Ministry of Culture via the Drac and Nop-Grand Est and will be exhibited in May 2023.
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