Violaine Chapallaz (1969) is a photographer based in Haarlem, the Netherlands. She specialises in portrait and fashion photography in which nature plays an important part.

Over the past 30 years Chapallaz has produced work for and collaborated with a multitude of Dutch as well as international magazines, clients and artists.

In her personal practice and collaborations, intentionality and slow craftsmanship take centre stage, taking the time to explore traditional, near-forgotten photographic techniques, as well as to thoroughly research and reflect on her practice. Having spent her formative years in several countries around the world, her curiosity for her surroundings moved her to take up the camera, which quickly became the mediator between her inner life and the world. Inspired by her travels, she is interested in the unpolished, overlooked and misunderstood.

From this standpoint, she explores themes as femininity and intimacy, ever celebrating the humanity of the people in front of her lens. Moreover, her work ever maintains an intimate relationship with the transience of life, as well as the beauty and power of nature.