Laura Henno is fascinated by the resilience of people living in the margins of society. Her political engagement is focused on isolated demographics in migration and survival situations: from California to the archipelago of the Comoros in the Indian Ocean, from Rome to the island of La Réunion. Her films and photographs provide a poetic look at how people in hopeless circumstances manage to stay afloat, or even stand up to their fate. She works alone and often follows her subjects for several years. The bonds of trust she manages to build with them enable her to come incredibly close, resulting in beautiful, intimate pictures that will haunt any viewer. 

Laura Henno lives and works in Paris. She was trained as a photographer at ENSAV La Cambre in Brussels. She went to on to study film at Le Fresnoy in France. In 2019, she won the prestigious SAM Prize for contemporary art. As a result, her work was exhibited at Palais de Tokyo in Paris last year.

Her film Djo, which will be screened at the upcoming h3h biennial, won the Jury Prize at the Champs-Élysées Film Festival of 2019 and the Camira Prize for short films at Entrevues Belfort in 2018.