| Antoine SERRA |
Born in 1975, Antoine Serra graduates from the Paris photographic Ecole des Gobelins in 1996. That same year, he joins the national newspaper France-Soir as an intern. Serra then works for a year for Imapress agency, covering news and celebrities. In 1998, he is hired by REA agency and works there for a year before joining Sygma as a staff photographer.
At that time, he follows the anti-globalization movement and its French leader, José Bové. He covers the annual Porto Alegre meeting and the counter summits in Seattle, Prague, Davos and Genoa. His work in this last city earns him a World Press Award in 2001 for his picture of the death of a young protester. He also witnesses the fall of Milosevic in Serbia and the conflict in Afghanistan.
In 2002, he co-founds In Visu with four other photographers. Since then, he reported on the oil spill in Spain, the war in Iraq and keeps working on the anti-globalization movement. Antoine Serra is in Paris.
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