Trained at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de La Cambre in Brussels, photographer and visual artist Véronique Ellena has received several public commissions (Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Musée André Malraux au Havre) and her images have entered many public (Centre Georges Pompidou, Fonds national d’Art contemporain, Frac Île-de-France) and private collections (including the Florence & Damien Bachelot collection). She has obtained prestigious residencies—Villa Médicis, Fondation des Treilles—and the “prix Liliane Bettencourt pour l'intelligence de la main” for Vitrail du Millénaire at the cathedral of Strasbourg.