Marie-Susanne Langille is an award-winning photographer and picture
editor.
Marie-Susanne graduated from The
University of Missouri with a Master's degree in photojournalism in 1995
and has ten years of experience in the field. She has worked for newspapers
in Utah, Iowa and Indiana as well as for the Associated Press in New York. She
has photographed people from President Clinton to former Chicago Bulls coach
Phil Jackson, and her pictures have appeared in newspapers around the country
from The New York Times to USA Today.
Marie-Susanne has studied with National Geographic photographer Sam
Abell and fine art photographers Joyce
Tenneson and Sean Kernan. In 1999,
she was named Indiana Newspaper Photographer of the Year. In 2003 she was a
nominee for the first annual Santa Fe
Center for Visual Arts prize for photography. Leading American curators,
educators, editors, art directors and photographers made nominations anonymously
for this new prize to recognize and reward gifted and committed photographers.
Marie-Susanne moved to Bloomington, Illinois, to be with her composer husband,
David Vayo, and
his children. She currently accepts freelance editorial assignments, portrait
commissions and shoots weddings and other special events. She also teaches photography
at Heartland Community College.