Virginie Otth, teacher, photographer, and visual artist, was born in 1971 in Lausanne.
She graduated from the Vevey School of Photography, was an artist-in-residence at FABRICA (with O. Toscani-Treviso) and at Les Diagonales de Royaumont (Paris), and was a recipient of a New York Film Academy scholarship. During her time in New York, she turned away from film and 16mm to work in a scientific image bank. Since then, her interest in science and its relationship to the image have remained constant.
Since the 2000s, she has taught photography at the CEPV in Vevey, and later at HEAD in Geneva. (Since 2005) She pursues a personal approach based on questioning the "gaze cast upon" and the photographic medium. Her works have been shown notably by the Musée de l’Elysée (for its exhibition on portraiture), at the Photoforum Pasquart for its exhibitions "Definitions," then "Blow Flies," and finally "Sillages," at the New York Photo Festival '09, at Circuit (Lausanne) with her installation "...and dust," and at the Kunsthalle Lucerne for her project "The Sabine Equation." She has been a founding member of the standard/deluxe association since 2005, a space for experimentation and exhibition of contemporary imagery in Lausanne. She obtained her Master of Fine Arts from ECAV in 2014 with a theoretical thesis on visual perception and, more specifically, the relationship between the optical system and our brain. In 2023, she was offered a solo exhibition, "Un lac dans l'oeil," and a curatorial exhibition, "L'un pour l'autre," at PHOTO ELYSÉE in Lausanne.
In recent years, her research has focused on "the materialization of an image in space" or "how the image becomes an object."
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