Emilie Rolin invites the viewer on a personal reflective journey through her work.
Her images symbolize her own perceptive path of meditation. She draws her inspiration from her immediate physical environment.
There are no preferences regarding the themes included in each image, although her surroundings influence her directly, now Hong Kong. The dark yellow tone that characterizes this work is a product of Emilie’s meditation as she senses it through a warm sphere.Emilie has been taking her pictures in Europe, in the USA and in Asia since September 2009;
these images are the raw material she uses. With the help of modern tools Emilie creates a new story by bringing these images and objects together.
Each artwork consists of two to five different pictures, merged together.
This results in a balanced and harmonic image reflecting Emilie’s own meditative state.
Belgian born and raised in Paris, France, Emilie was influenced from an early age on by her father,
himself an enthusiastic amateur photographer.
At the age of 17, Emilie was taking a photography course at Exeter summer school
in the USA where she printed her first black and white photographs.
One particular picture made one of Emilie’s teacher comment: "This photograph could be in Vogue",
this comforted her in undertaking a career as a photographer.
After graduation at INRACI in Brussels, Belgium, she went on to become a freelance photographer,
balancing her time between corporate and artistic work. In 2009, Emilie decided to develop her
artistic career further and enrolled in a master’s program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Now she lives in Hong Kong developing her art.
2014
HK Art, Wan Chai, Wan Chai, Hong Kong
Umami, Reflection, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
Man Mo Gallery, Documentary Photography of Hong Kong from 2011 to 2014, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
2013
bFelix, Reflection, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
2007
Laetitia de Caritat Gallery, Our Children and Ecology, Brussels, Belgium
Laetitia de Caritat Gallery, New York, Brussels, Belgium
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015
French May, Enfants du Mekong, Core Values of Hong Kong, Visual Arts Center, Hong Kong
Spot U Art, Reflection, Brussels, Belgium
2014
Shenzhen Bienvenue, Vues de France, Vue de Chine, Shenzhen, China
Spot U Art, Reflection, Brussels, Belgium
2013
Kee Club, Reflection, Central, Hong Kong
deTour, PMQ, Documentary Photography of Hong Kong, Soho, Hong Kong
2011
First Art Festival at Lavaux Saint Anne, Rochefort, Belgium
2010
LACDA, Snap to Grid, Los Angeles, CA, USA
SVA Gallery, Optic Nerve, New York City, NY, USA
SVA Westside Gallery, Between, New York City, NY, USA
2008
Cobalt International Gallery, Stoemp, Brussels, Belgium
Awards and honors
2010
International Aperture Awards, Bronze Award for the picture "Briou"
SVA Galleries call for entries
Selected Press
HK Magazine, “Hong Kong Art”, December 2014
HK Madame, “Hong Kong Art”, December 2014
HK Magazine, “Documentary Photography of Hong Kong”, May 2014
HK Madame, “Documentary Photography of Hong Kong”, May 2014
Le Petit Journal, “Reflection”, December 2013
HK Magazine, “Reflection”, December 2013
Education
MPS in Digital Photography, New York, New York, 2010
BFA in Photography, Brussels, Belgium, 2005
BC in Sciences at the French Lyceum Jean Monnet, Brussels, Belgium, 2000
