Viviane Grady

A Montreal native, Viviane has been living in Pittsburgh since 2019. Prior she lived in Hartford, CT for twenty years since her return from South East Asia where she lived for eight years. She is a graduate from the University of Connecticut’s School of Fine Arts where she acquired a B.F.A., majoring in Graphic Design and a Post Graduate Diploma in Design Studies from the University of Technology, Sydney. Viviane is an avid traveler who is passionate about people and cultures.

Viviane was given her first Kodak Instamatic with the Magicube at the age of six for Christmas. A Polaroid followed this and then she was lent her father’s Konica in 1985 to try out. Her father believed children ought to explore and be creative, and as a photographer himself always had a spare camera for her to try out. In 2005, she went digital taking a new step in her photographic approach. Only when she was certain that digital was the way to go did she return the Konica in 2010, twenty-four years later.

During the past thirty-seven years, she has spent time in six of our seven continents capturing her adventures on camera. Viviane has had two of her photos selected for publication in The Hartford Courant’s travel section, ‘On the Road to Morocco’, Meknes, Morocco (September 13, 2009) and ‘Beauty on Ice’, Juneau, Alaska (November 4, 2007). Some of her destinations include Vietnam, Portugal, Croatia, Mongolia, Russia, Jordan, Sweden, Thailand, Indonesia, and Australia.