Inverness, Quebec, Canada-2 Photograph

Florence Gallez is an independent documentary photojournalist and black-and-white photographer from Brussels, Belgium, currently based in Montreal. She received an MSc in media studies from MIT, then worked for 8 years as a journalist in Moscow, Russia, followed by 8 years as a photojournalist in Paris. As a photographer of social documentaries, she seeks to bring more visibility to people who are in challenging situations, especially women and children. In Montreal, she is also contributing local and international news and social documentaries to the American photo agency Polaris Images and the Russian news agency Sputnik/Rossiya Segodnya.