Emmanuelle Perryman is a photographer, writer, and film podcaster. She is the author of Finding Detroit: Faces and Places in the Motor City, a photography/interview book that celebrates the people and city of Detroit.
As a photographer, Emmanuelle focuses on portraiture and travel photography.
She received a Bachelor of Arts in Cinema Studies from the City College of New York and a Master's in Library Science with a focus on film archives from Queens College.
In 2013 Emmanuelle presented a paper, "The Artist and Hugo: Contrasting Perspectives of Cinematic Nostalgia," at the film conference "Hollywood and the World" in Sydney, Australia. Her paper was published in an e-book and has been included in a reading list at Bangor University in Wales under the heading “French Cinema Since 1960.”
In 2018 Emmanuelle launched her podcast, The Reel Woman. Some of her first season guests include Michigan Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, legendary DJ Rob Swift of the X-Ecutioners, and co-founder of the Afro-Punk Festival James Spooner. There is a special Halloween episode “Female Vampires in Cinema” with Dr. Victoria Amador, a scholar of British and American Gothic film and literature, and an episode on Film Noir with Jerry Carlson, a specialist in narrative theory, and Director of the Cinema Studies program at the City University of New York.