Emma Riviera graduated from Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne with a degree in film and audiovisual studies and took a one-year preparatory course at the Atelier de Sèvres before enrolling in the ENSP in 2017. She has participated in several group shows, including Caillé.xes in Paris, Not So Crazy Girls at the Espace Futur gallery in Paris and Fos-sur-terre at the Artothèque de Miramas. In 2019, she won the Focus Award. Her photos have been published in several magazines, including Parad and Bruto Fanzine. She will be an artist-in-residence at the Rencontres de la jeune photographie internationale festival planned at the Villa Pérochon in Niort in 2021.