Jennifer Chan is a Chinese Canadian and French documentary photographer based in Paris. After her Bachelor’s degree in business in Hong Kong, she studied at HEC (Hautes Etudes Commerciales) in France and worked as a trader and Financial Controller in Japan before pursuing research in the US. She graduated with a doctorate in international development at Stanford University in 2001 and completed her postdoc at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University in 2006. In 2007, she graduated from the Independent Filmmaking Program at the Gulf Island Film and Television School in Canada, and received the top Outstanding Achievement in Film Award at the Eyelens Festival as producer and director of her animated film, Day of Shame, about US military occupation in Okinawa. The following year, she completed a Black and White Photography course at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design. In 2011, she met two Magnum photographers, Jonas Bendikson and Chien-Chi Chang, in Moscow that would change the course of her life. Inspired by them to use visual storytelling to shed light on contemporary issues, she transitioned as a documentary photographer in 2017 and has not stopped traveling with her camera ever since.
