France Post has introduced a special stamp from the series "Contemporary Photographer". This bright philatelic item is devoted to Valérie Belin – a famous photographer from Boulogne-Billancourt, who lives and works in Paris today. The works of Valérie Belin have been exhibited around the world and are held in numerous public and private collections. The stamp features one of her greatest photographs - Calendula (Marigold).
Internationally renowned and critically respected, Valérie Belin is perhaps the most celebrated French photographer working today. She is a sculptor among photographers. Her images are studies of light and reflection on surfaces, textures, form and volumes, which come alive in the lens. Over the past seventeen years she has worked on an oeuvre comprising some 20 series of still-lifes and portraits. Most of these were photographed in strong and highly contrasting black and white, but her latest work like “Calendula” is in colour.
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