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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.
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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
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