Available for assignments worldwide.
Currently in Vienna, Austria
In Ukraine from December 18 to February 25, 2026
About
Marylise Vigneau is an award-winning documentary photographer based between Austria and Pakistan.
Raised in a secretive Parisian family, Marylise Vigneau developed an early taste for investigation and justice.
At la Sorbonne, her “Compared Literature” master's was about cities as characters in Russian and Central-European novels, where and when the clearest narrative gets lost in a heady, haunting uncertainty.
Despite her fascination with literature, her mode of expression has become photography over time, without her knowing precisely why - maybe the mix of precision, immediacy, truth, and lies which is behind every image.
What attracts her first and foremost is how human beings are affected by borders, both physical and mental, this fugitive space where an unexpected, bold and fragile act or a glimpse of freedom can arise.
She works preferably on long-term projects to better explore memory and place.
She likes to capture in-between moments in regions saturated with history and socio-political tensions.
Clients: The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Politico Europe, Libération.
Recent Awards
Second place winner, Istanbul Photo Awards 2025 in the portrait category/ Nominated for the Pictet Prize 2025 / Third place winner, Istanbul Photo Awards 2024 in the “Story daily life” category /Finalist POY Asia 2024, Portrait Series / Overall winner Gomma Grant 2023 / Winner of the BarTur Photo Awards 2023 “Unity and Diversity” category / Winner of the Open Call, Photo Israel 2023 / Second place in the professional Portfolio category, Sony World Photography Awards 2023 / Finalist winner, category Portrait Series, POY ( Picture of the Year international) 2023 / First Place Winner in the portraiture category, Xposure Awards 2022 / Nominated for the Oskar Barnack Award 2022 / Nominated for the Leica Oskar Barnak Award 2020 / Nominated for the Pictet Prize 2019 / Shortlisted at the Felix Schoeller Awards 2019 “Innocent Prowls through Pakistan” / Winner of the Wolf Suschitzky Photography Prize 2018. "About Time or the Impossibility of an Island" / Winner of “New Visions”, Cortona on the Move 2018 / Shortlisted for Direct Look Photo, FOTODOC Center for Documentary Photography at the Sakharov centre “The Last of the Companeros” / Finalist for prix “ImageSingulières, Médiapart 2018” “Article 19
Published Photo Books
-“Red Utopias”, Essarter Editions, 2019
Contact
Marylise is available to travel for assignment work, portraits or special projects. For print purchasing or licensing, please contact her directly.
She is represented by the Anzenberger Agency in Vienna.
Whatsapp/Signal/ Telegram: +43 68181753054
email: marylisevigneau@yahoo.fr