Emmanuel Serna:

https://www.emmanuelserna.net/

Emmanuel Serna is a French photographer based in Hong Kong. After graduating from a photography school, he first worked on the Indian and Sri Lankan minorities of Paris through religion. Then for 5 years he has documented the after-effects of civil wars on the civilian populations of the Balkans by reporting on refugees, Muslims and the elderly in Kosovo, war widows in Bosnia, young people in Serbia. He also worked in Romania where he was interested in the Russian minority and in Turkey where he worked on daily life.

Since 2010, he has concentered his work in Hong Kong as well as in mainland China. He has documented daily life, leisure and tourism, minorities and religion, refugees, homeless and elderly as well as the events that have shaken Hong Kong over the past 10 years. In his photos, he likes to photograph individuals, their relationships with each other and with their environment as well as the traces they leave there. His photos are regularly published in the international press and some of his work has been exhibited in individual and group exhibitions in France, Hong Kong and Taiwan.