Celine Grouard (b. 1979 Maui, HI) is a photographer based out of Newburgh, NY in the mid-Hudson Valley (about an hour and a half from New York City). Celine specializes in portraiture, but she also loves to shoot still life, stories and locations.
Celine is currently Senior Photo Editor at for Fast Company, where she handles art direction and production of photo shoots for the magazine, as well as contributing to the website. Her work for Fast Company has spanned a wide range of assignments— from portraiture, still life, and conceptual photographs to handling event photography, custom projects and more— and has garnered recognition from the Society of Publication Designers and American Photography. Prior to working at Fast Company she lived in the Bay Area and was a photo editor at WIRED.
Though Celine has spent the most time in San Francisco, Oakland and New York City, she has also lived in Paris, Quebec and Abu-Dhabi and several other American cities.
Her love of photography started as a child in Abu-Dhabi, when she discovered the beautiful images in a National Geographics article she was to write a report on. Instantly she realized that she could travel if she was a photographer and the seed was planted. A few years later, her great-aunt brought her to a photography festival in Arles where Celine discovered another side to the medium: one that revealed other worlds and was a form of travel in itself. At fourteen she started photographing, processing film and printing images in a darkroom, and has never looked back.
Celine loves to connect with people, especially through photography— whether chatting about a photographer’s work with them, through commissioning work, or when photographing someone.
Available for commissions and freelance projects.
