Viviane Dalles, was born in France in 1978, and completed her Masters at the National School of Photography in Arles, in 2003. At the beginning of 2005, following the tsunami in the Indian Ocean, she quit her job at the Magnum Photos archives and bought a plane ticket to India. That first reportage changed her life. At that point, she made up her mind to become a documentary photographer. Viviane has covered stories in France, India, Nepal, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Thailand, Bhutan, Australia, New Zealand and the United States of America. She has been based in France since 2012. Her work is regularly published in magazines such as GEO, VSD, ELLE, Vanity Fair, Nouvel Obs or The New York Times.
