Florence Gallez is an independent documentary photojournalist and black-and-white photographer from Brussels, Belgium, currently based in Montreal. Gallez received a BA degree in English and Russian from the University of London in 1996, an MSc in journalism from Boston University in 1999, and a digital media-focused MSc from MIT in 2012. She spent eight years as a Moscow-based journalist covering Russian politics, economics, society, and culture for The Moscow Times, the U.S. publisher Bureau of National Affairs (Bloomberg BNA), and most recently CNN's Moscow Bureau. She then worked for 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.

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