Born in France in 1973, Flore de Préneuf has been writing and taking photographs since she was a child.

She grew up in France, South Korea, the United States and Great Britain. She also lived in Sarajevo and Jerusalem. She speaks French, English, Russian and Spanish.

She has two children (Theo - 2001 and Alice - 2003) and now lives in the United States.

Exhibitions:
2008 “Local Color,” solo exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2006 “Time for Freedom,” group exhibition, Cité du Temps, Geneva, Switzerland
2003 “Balagan,” solo exhibition, Pro-Jex Gallery, Austin, TX

Publications:
2008 “Local Color,” artist’s book hand-printed and bound in edition limited to five. One copy is held at Stanford's Special Collections.
2003 “Chronique d’un dialogue de sourds: Israël - Palestine, 1998 - 2002,” published by Labor et Fides, Geneva. Fifty color and BW street photographs married with text, reflecting on four years of war and peace in the Middle East.
1998 - 2009 Photographs from Russia, the Balkans, the Middle East, South Korea and the United States reproduced in dozens of publications including The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Financial Times, The Independent, The International Herald Tribune, Libération and Revue.com (French on-line photography magazine).

Collections:
Special Collections, Stanford University, CA
Living Cities (urban non-profit), New York, NY
Private collections in the United States, France, Switzerland and Peru

Awards:
2000 “Seeing the News” photography prize, awarded by Reuters and The Independent
1996 “Entente Cordiale” scholarship, awarded by The British Council

Education:
1995 - 1997 MPhil in Russian and East European studies, Oxford University, UK
1992 - 1995 Institut d’Etudes Politques, Paris, France

Professional Experience:
2005 - 2008 Web editor and multimedia producer for The World Bank, Washington, DC.
1997 - 2004 Freelance journalist and photographer based in Sarajevo, Jerusalem, Austin and Washington DC. Middle East correspondent for Salon.com