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Last updated 05:19 Mon 02 Feb 2009

Virgile Simon Bertrand is 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 Duperré (Paris) and Photography at the Ecole Nationale de la Photographie (1993, Arles).

He has held solo exhibitions of his work in Hong Kong, Taiwan 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.

Website: virgilebertrand.com