Terrasse Virginie
Photographer / Based in paris
Virginie Terrasse lives in Paris. Self-educated, she becomes freelance photographer in 2002. Her personal work document the relation between human being and its environment, culture and its origins. Through photography she...
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Focus:
Photographer, Journalist, Street Art, Researcher, Fine Art, History, Documentary, Multimedia, Photography, Portraiture, Illustration, Lifestyle, Visuals Editor
Skills:
Digital Printing, Audio Recording, Color Correction, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Premier, Apple Final Cut Pro, Photo Editing, Black & White Printing, Curating, Art Direction, Animation, Multimedia Production, Photojournalism, Film Photography
About
Virginie Terrasse lives in Paris. Self-educated, she becomes freelance photographer in 2002.
Her personal work document the relation between human being and its environment, culture and its origins. Through photography she wants to witness for what is not seen anymore. Her documentary emphasis communities (Sikhs of Bobigny, Paris region), countries (Albania), area of tension (Middle-East, Tibet) where history has been recently changed and stories aren't well known.
In 2010, her photographique documentary on Palestine "La Palestine comment ?" was awarded at the "Levallois-Epson prize for contemporary photography" president of the jury Susanna Brown, curator for photography, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Marc Lenot, amateur and collector, blog "Lunettes rouges", Aline Pujo, curator, conservation curator NSM Vie / ABN Amro, Gu Zheng, publisher, critic, curator, lecturer, Fudan University, Shanghai, Stéphane Decreps, Deputy Mayor for Cultural Affairs, City of Levallois, Guy Boyer, editorial director, Knowledge of the Arts. In 2011 for the same work she was shortlisted at the HSBC award, festival OffSète Images Documentaires.
Her multimedia and photographic work (Voluptas, La Palestine comment ?, Bobigny, terre des Sikhs) has been presented in several French and European festivals : RIP in Arles - ENZIMI - Savignano in Italy - Biennal of Liège in Belgium - Transphotograhiques in Lille - Fotofestiwal in Poland - La Ville mobile/ Cité du design - FIAV-2017 (Festival International d'Art Video) de Casablanca - LESFOTOCOURTS#2017-Festival international de courts-métrages photos - durant tout le WAC-2017 (Week-End de l'Art Contemporain 2017) au CAPC (musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux) dans le cadre de "NEW LANDSCAPES"commissariat de Mohamed Thara .
Since 2012 she's working on Greenland, whit the help of the CNC (National Center of Cinematography in france) . Since 2014 she's travel in Senegal, France, USA to begin a work on a forgoten first world champion black boxer.
Her personal work document the relation between human being and its environment, culture and its origins. Through photography she wants to witness for what is not seen anymore. Her documentary emphasis communities (Sikhs of Bobigny, Paris region), countries (Albania), area of tension (Middle-East, Tibet) where history has been recently changed and stories aren't well known.
In 2010, her photographique documentary on Palestine "La Palestine comment ?" was awarded at the "Levallois-Epson prize for contemporary photography" president of the jury Susanna Brown, curator for photography, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Marc Lenot, amateur and collector, blog "Lunettes rouges", Aline Pujo, curator, conservation curator NSM Vie / ABN Amro, Gu Zheng, publisher, critic, curator, lecturer, Fudan University, Shanghai, Stéphane Decreps, Deputy Mayor for Cultural Affairs, City of Levallois, Guy Boyer, editorial director, Knowledge of the Arts. In 2011 for the same work she was shortlisted at the HSBC award, festival OffSète Images Documentaires.
Her multimedia and photographic work (Voluptas, La Palestine comment ?, Bobigny, terre des Sikhs) has been presented in several French and European festivals : RIP in Arles - ENZIMI - Savignano in Italy - Biennal of Liège in Belgium - Transphotograhiques in Lille - Fotofestiwal in Poland - La Ville mobile/ Cité du design - FIAV-2017 (Festival International d'Art Video) de Casablanca - LESFOTOCOURTS#2017-Festival international de courts-métrages photos - durant tout le WAC-2017 (Week-End de l'Art Contemporain 2017) au CAPC (musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux) dans le cadre de "NEW LANDSCAPES"commissariat de Mohamed Thara .
Since 2012 she's working on Greenland, whit the help of the CNC (National Center of Cinematography in france) . Since 2014 she's travel in Senegal, France, USA to begin a work on a forgoten first world champion black boxer.