Flight Mode with Documentary Photographer Emanuel Hahn
Here's what Emanuel Hahn takes with him to capture street scenes in Cuba, coffee farmers in Colombia & Korean Uzbeks in Brooklyn.
Emmanuel Hahn in Fort Greene, Brooklyn \ Photo: June Kim
Emanuel Hahn is a Brooklyn-based editorial and documentary photographer specializing in portraiture and human stories. If you ever get to sit with him for coffee, he’ll likely get you to share your story of where home is for you. As a third-culture kid ? Hahn was born in Saipan to South Korean parents, grew up in Singapore and Cambodia, and has since made New York his home ? he’s always curious about how cultural identities move across geographic space, especially with diaspora communities around the world.
His work “The Mississippi Delta Chinese“, an audiovisual narrative project on the oral histories of the Chinese community in Mississippi, was published in the New York Times. Most recently, his project “The Korean Uzbeks of Brooklyn” was published in PRI and The Calvert Journal. Emanuel has also worked with clients such as Airbnb, Tiffany & Co., Clinique, and has been published in Surface Magazine, The Atlantic, and Architectural Digest, among others. Hahn’s interests and adventures have brought him to Milan Design Week to shoot for Google’s A Space for Being, to Greece with sustainable fashion start-up ADIFF, and to Colombian coffee farms to document the lives of the coffee pickers behind our beans. So we thought we’...
Emmanuel Hahn in Fort Greene, Brooklyn \ Photo: June Kim
Emanuel Hahn is a Brooklyn-based editorial and documentary photographer specializing in portraiture and human stories. If you ever get to sit with him for coffee, he’ll likely get you to share your story of where home is for you. As a third-culture kid ? Hahn was born in Saipan to South Korean parents, grew up in Singapore and Cambodia, and has since made New York his home ? he’s always curious about how cultural identities move across geographic space, especially with diaspora communities around the world.
His work “The Mississippi Delta Chinese“, an audiovisual narrative project on the oral histories of the Chinese community in Mississippi, was published in the New York Times. Most recently, his project “The Korean Uzbeks of Brooklyn” was published in PRI and The Calvert Journal. Emanuel has also worked with clients such as Airbnb, Tiffany & Co., Clinique, and has been published in Surface Magazine, The Atlantic, and Architectural Digest, among others. Hahn’s interests and adventures have brought him to Milan Design Week to shoot for Google’s A Space for Being, to Greece with sustainable fashion start-up ADIFF, and to Colombian coffee farms to document the lives of the coffee pickers behind our beans. So we thought we’...
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