Valérie Berta

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Location: Columbia, MO, U.S.

Nationality: French

Biography: Valérie Berta is an international photographer based in the United States. She was born and raised on the Riviera, in the South of France, studied English in Paris and journalism at the University of MissouriColumbia and worked as a... read on

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Feb 20, 2017

February 19, 2017, Columbia (Missouri.)

A warm winter day in the park.
Kids and kid guns.
Plenty.

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The WE project exhibit is on.

By Valérie Berta — Who WE Are, or the WE project, a series of multimedia portraits of people belonging to marginalized communities in Missouri, is now on public..

Oct 24, 2018 1129

The Voices workshop is here!

By Valérie Berta — The Voices photo workshop introduces minority children to documentary visual story-telling through the practice of photography and an introduction..

Oct 12, 2017 1906

The We Project

By Valérie Berta — The We Project is a series of studio portraits of people in marginalized comunities in Columbia, Missouri: the African-American, LBGTQ and immigrant..

Oct 4, 2017 2128

Clamors.

By Valérie Berta — July 3, 2017, Saint-Ismier (France.) It is a summer of wide traveling, and I revel in my good fortune, and dwell in my silent wounds, that stubborn..

Jul 3, 2017 1844

Group shot.

By Valérie Berta — May 24, 2017, Columbia. This is our school. It's a rainbow. They asked me to take a picture. I could not resist a roof. I'm glad I did it. This is..

May 24, 2017 1299

Zaia.

By Valérie Berta — April 23, 2017, House Springs (Missouri.) Zaia, circus artist from Mongolia, in her trailer before shows (Kelly Miller Circus.)

Apr 23, 2017 1298

There.

By Valérie Berta — April 18, 2017, Columbia (Missouri.) There, laid bare. They do that, now. Sometimes. I photograph them, if they’ll let me. There, that’s it...

Apr 22, 2017 1240

Hard velvet.

By Valérie Berta — April 7, 2017, Mountain Home (Arkansas.) Nothing beats the beauty of the southern Missouri hills in the late afternoon light of an early spring...

Apr 13, 2017 1235

It's crazy like that.

By Valérie Berta — March 29, 2017, Hope (Arkansas.) Photography is crazy like that. The trees did not look like that. The light was interesting, but it came to life..

Mar 30, 2017 1239

Monochrome.

By Valérie Berta — March 29, 2017, Hope (Arkansas.)

Mar 29, 2017 1211

The sand castle.

By Valérie Berta — March 28, 2017, Ashdown (Arkansas.) We’re going to make a sand castle, he said. I was walking to town when I saw them. An older man and a little..

Mar 28, 2017 1264

My sister's house.

By Valérie Berta — March 26, 2017, Caddo Mills (Texas.) I’m on the road again. A milestone birthday with family, Nicolas turns ten this week; the two digits, the..

Mar 26, 2017 1285

Bring it on.

By Valérie Berta — March 17, 2017, Columbia (Missouri.) There are so many fires to put out, day after day, that is is hard to find time to do anything else. Call that..

Mar 17, 2017 1214

In my backyard.

By Valérie Berta — February 24, 2017, Columbia (Missouri.) I find writing comforting, difficult, necessary. I write in my mind, every day. My backyard is a war zone...

Feb 23, 2017 1206

The light.

By Valérie Berta — February 1, 2017, Columbia (Missouri.) There is the darkness all engulfing. And there is the light. That morning it was in the sky, out of the..

Feb 1, 2017 1211

Women's March.

By Valérie Berta — Columbia, Missouri, January 21, 2017. I marched with my family today in Columbia, my community, because I am a woman, because I am married to an..

Jan 23, 2017 1210

Farewell to my president.

By Valérie Berta — January 11, 2017, Columbia (Missouri.) http://professionsinglemotherphotographer.blogspot.com/

Jan 11, 2017 1184

The milk.

By Valérie Berta — January 6, 2017, Columbia (Missouri.) The diminutive waves on the surface of the milk when it is heating up. Their undulation. The folds as if of..

Jan 7, 2017 1181

That picture.

By Valérie Berta — December 19, 2016, Columbia (Missouri.) That picture. The bravery of that AP photographer. The poise. The white walls, the black suit, the art on..

Dec 20, 2016 1165

Just starting.

By Valérie Berta — Just starting. December 7, 2016, Columbia (Missouri.) In a moment of rare quiet solitude this morning I was reading a New Yorker profile of Pedro..

Dec 7, 2016 1220

Almost fifty.

By Valérie Berta — November 26, 2016, Columbia (Missouri.) I’m almost fifty. It doesn’t matter much to anybody but me. I’ll still get up in the morning and make..

Nov 26, 2016 1207

Baroque.

By Valérie Berta — October 27, 2016, Columbia (Missouri.) It’s Halloween. It’s almost Halloween, three days left, and the kids made costumes from scratch, I..

Oct 28, 2016 1211

Through a camera.

By Valérie Berta — October 24, 2016, Columbia (Missouri.) The girls were playing in the neighbor’s yard, all the girls, the ones from the neighbor in the back and..

Oct 25, 2016 1201

Celebrations.

By Valérie Berta — October 20, 2016, Columbia (Missouri.) I celebrate the little things, and rejoice in them. This is what I wanted to write about tonight. The..

Oct 21, 2016 1171

Friends in photography.

By Valérie Berta — September 30, 2016, Columbia (Missouri.) Last week end was endless. Old friends came to visit on Saturday, and ended up staying the whole day, and..

Oct 1, 2016 1228

Summer is gone.

By Valérie Berta — August 23, 2016, Columbia (Missouri.) I have missed writing. I’ve missed the act of writing and I’ve missed on the writing, and the summer is..

Aug 24, 2016 1228

The rain.

By Valérie Berta — June 20, 2016, Columbia (Missouri.) The rains came in sheets and it smelled so good. This was the most joyful event in my life, he said...

Jun 21, 2016 2966

It is.

By Valérie Berta — June 10, Columbia (Missouri.) Sometimes I just want to scream like a blade. It comes unannounced like a tide and it is gone just as easy...

Jun 11, 2016 3383

Dreams of ice cubes.

By Valérie Berta — June 6, Columbia (Missouri.) It’s turned warm. I feel like sitting down on the porch with a cold glass of sparkling water and jingle the ice..

Jun 6, 2016 3069

Like a kid (yet again.)

By Valérie Berta — May 30, Columbia (Missouri.) My head is exploding. Yesterday I got fitted with a new pair of hearing aids, and it feels just like when I first got..

May 30, 2016 3123

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