Valerie Morignat has received 25 international photography awards, among which the Arte Laguna Prize, the International Photography Awards, and the Sony World Photography Award. Her underwater photography is featured in industry publications and acquired by private collectors and national art museums.

Working at the intersection of disciplines, Valerie Morignat fuses the visual grammars of fine art, cinema, and digital experimentation. Her practice, anchored in water’s transformative essence, reimagines the photograph as a hybrid narrative form—part myth, part dream, part reflection. Through this fluid lens, she crafts images that transcend genre and invite contemplation of the stories light can tell.

Valerie Morignat is an international fine art photographer and portraitist, born in New Caledonia and residing in San Francisco. Alongside her artistic practice, she serves as a Responsible AI Executive at a leading consulting firm, where she leads global initiatives in ethical and trustworthy artificial intelligence for life sciences and technology clients.
Valerie holds a Ph.D. in Arts and Art Sciences from Sorbonne University. She previously taught for fifteen years as an Assistant Professor at the Sorbonne and as a Tenured Associate Professor of Cinema and Digital Arts at the University of Montpellier III. After her academic tenure, she relocated to the Asia-Pacific region, where she simultaneously led a business consulting firm and a photography studio.
Her work—where light, form, and storytelling converge in quiet acts of revelation—has been celebrated worldwide and honored with multiple awards.

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