Serene Teo
Profile
Based in
Singapore
Practice
Documentary and Street Photography
Format
Digital & Analogue
Recognition
Crowbar Awards, 2022
Biography
Serene Teo is a Singapore-based photographer whose work is shaped by observation, patience, and lived experience. Working across both digital and analogue formats, she photographs intuitively across a wide range of subjects, guided less by genre and more by attentiveness to people, place, and time.
Serene's photographs have been exhibited and featured across photography platforms and independent publications, including features by Leica Singapore. She has also collaborated with Leica Singapore on a MEV-1 video shoot and was featured during the Leica Singapore Noctilux 35mm lens launch, contributing her photographic perspective and visual approach through both collaborations and exhibitions.
In 2022, Serene was recognised at the Crowbar Awards for her documentary series, receiving one Bronze award and two Finalist distinctions. Alongside her personal practice, she is actively involved in photographic curation, contributing to the growth and support of the wider photography community.
Balancing a professional career alongside her creative work, Serene continues to develop long-term photographic projects driven by curiosity, sensitivity, and a quiet commitment to seeing.
— “My photography is grounded in everyday reality. I don’t stage, I don’t interfere, I respond. I shoot what I observe and love, not to impress, just to stay honest to what draws me in.” —
Serene Teo
01 — Selected
Featured Work
Exhibitions, publications and collaborations spanning Singapore, Germany, Milan, Treviso and Venice.
Noctilux into the lightfall exhibition 2026 · Leica
Leica Singapore noctilux 35mm Launch
02 — Long-form
Projects
Bodies of work developed through observation, patience and lived experience, documenting stories across people, place and time.
03 — COMMISSION
FINE ART PRINTS
Quality fine art prints from selected documentary, street and fine art photographs, available in limited quantities.
Commissions · Editorial · Collaborations
Studio
Serene Teo
Based in Singapore. Available for editorial assignments, collaborations, and long-form documentary projects.