Marc Vallée
Marc Vallée (born 1968) is a British documentary photographer who has photographed youth culture, in Paris, Berlin, and London where he lives. He has made work about the tension between public and private space in the context of graffiti, skateboarding and queer cultures. Vallée has self-published many zines and shown in group exhibitions at the Museum of London and Somerset House. Early life and education Vallée was raised in West London. From the late 1980s, he worked as a layout artist and typesetter for Militant, the newspaper of Militant tendency, for five years. He enrolled in art school as a painter in the early 1990s, graduating with a BA in Fine Art in 1997, and a MA in Art, Design and Visual Culture in 1999, both from the Sir John Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design in London. Life and work Photojournalism In the 2000s, Vallée worked as a photojournalist at protests, mainly in London, and worked on investigations for The Guardian and the Financial Times. He was badly injured by police during a demonstration in Parliament Square in October 2006. Documentary zines Vallée's documentary photography since 2010 has been about the tension between public and private space, in