LIBERATION

Marie-Laure Vareilles was born in 1966. After studying interior architecture and working as a graphic designer for a technical magazine, she decided, aged 36, to dedicate her time to her first love: art and photography. She travels extensively, particularly in Asia and takes photos that she assembles as montages on her return, inspired by her encounters and filled with poetry. These landscape montages made her famous. “I try to create the most realistic imaginary landscapes possible,” she explains, “I want spectators to invent their own story as they look at them, so that the photomontage comes to life according to each individual’s imagination.” Nowadays, Marie-Laure Vareille’s work takes the various forms of photo books, large-format prints, magazines, or even clothing collections! She exhibits in both the United States and Vaison-la-Romaine, the village in the south of France where she continues to live and compile her photos when she returns from her travels. Questioned as to the three things that are essential in life, she replied “creativity, passion, and… a computer!”