www.virgilebertrand.com

20/F Euro Trade Centre, 21-23 Des Voeux Road Central
Hong Kong SAR
China
+85296057781

Virgile Simon Bertrand is a French photographer who has been based in Asia since the late 1990s. Bertrand studied Applied Arts at Ecole Boulle (1988 - 1991, Paris), Graphic Design at Ecole Duperre (Paris) and Photography at the Ecole Nationale de la Photographie (1993, Arles).

He has held solo exhibitions of his work in Hong Kong, Taipei, London and Paris. In 2004 Bertrand received the Foreign Correspondents’ Club Hong Kong Photograph of the Year Award for his portrait of Cardinal Zen. More recently his portrait of Beijing artist Yin Xiu Zhen has been selected for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize Exhibition which opens in November 2008 at The National Portrait Gallery, London.

Specialties

Portrait, Architecture, Fashion

Clients

Wallpaper, Forbes, Surface, Qvest, Vogue China, Marie Claire UK, Frame, Ogilvy, Bates 141, BBDO, TBWA

Awards

2009 AOP AWARDS (UK) - Portrait, Finalist., 2009 Hasselblad Masters Awards - Architecture, Finalist.

Organizations

Association of Photographers (UK)