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..

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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..

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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..

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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 2213

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 1648

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 1647

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 1597

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 1608

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 1573

Monochrome.

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

Mar 29, 2017 1555

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 1624

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 1664

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 1563

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 1569

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 1549

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..

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