About

Email: picvwdetroit@gmail.com

Native Detroiter Valaurian Waller is a documentary photographer whose work examines social inequities in the city of Detroit. Self-taught, she is a Foundry Photo Workshop alumna (2021), a Facing Change: Documenting Detroit Fellow (2018), and a member of Diversity Photo and Women Photograph.

Her most recent work is on display at the Detroit Historical Museum as part of 'The Hustle' exhibition (2023-2024). Valaurian’s photos have been published in the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Houston Chronicle, The Detroit Free Press, Bridge Michigan, Bridge Detroit, and Detroit Catholic, among others.

She was an assistant producer for the 2020 Frontline Documentary: “Growing Up Poor In America” about children and their families navigating poverty, homelessness, race, and new challenges brought on by COVID-19 in Ohio and hopes to explore more documentary work in the near future.