About Me - The Big Picture

I would have loved to say that I picked up my first camera when I was a child and got “hooked” on photography from that time on. But this is not the truth. I started taking pictures as a complement to my journalistic work, a few years ago. Shooting a portrait was another way to talk about a person. Sometimes the images were more eloquent than the words. As I got more involved with photography, I soon trained my eyes to "see" in this new visual language. Photography is now an exhilarating way of expressing myself and conveying the way I visualize the world. I tend to see the beauty in the natural world. I love to shoot portraits of people I meet. I find profound interest in documenting events, in a photojournalistic way.

I am based in Atlanta and I have lived in the US for now more than 15 years. But I was born and raised in France, and I treasure the cultural baggage that I inherited. I also spent a good part of my life in Tucson, Arizona. From that time remains a love for open space and pure blue sky. What you see on this website is only a part of my work. I constantly work on new projects and ideas. I invite you to follow my work on my blog at virginiekippelen.wordpress.com. Please do not hesitate to contact me for comments, if you wish to purchase a picture, or commission work.

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