Born in 1985, Emin Özmen is concerned with documenting human rights violations in his home country of Turkey and around the world. He aims to bring attention to the suffering of those who are victims of civil unrest and social injustice.
In 2011, he worked on famine in East Africa, the disaster of the earthquake-tsunami in Japan, and economic protests in Greece. The following year, he started covering the Syrian civil war and IS crisis in Iraq, which he continues to document. Since then, he has worked in South Sudan, Niger, Nigeria, Venezuela, Azerbaijan, Iraq and Turkey, among other countries.
Özmen has won several honors, including two World Press Photo Awards and the Public Jury Photo Prize of the Bayeux-Calvados Awards for war correspondents. He was a member of the jury for the 2016 and 2018 World Press Photo Multimedia Contests.
Özmen became a Magnum Photos nominee in 2017 and a full member in 2022. He currently lives in Istanbul.
Based between Turkey and France, Cloé Kerhoas is a freelance photography editor, educator, curator and photo consultant developing international projects.
She worked as exhibition coordinator at Mémorial de Caen, the biggest museum dedicated to contemporary armed conflicts. There, she was also in charge of organising the prestigious Human Rights Competition. She then worked at Christian Dior Museum and in Normandy Art and History Museum as cultural project manager. In 2014, Cloé worked for the Prix Bayeux of War Correspondents.
From 2015 to 2019, she worked as Co-Director & Photo Editor at Agence Le Journal, a photography collective founded by Emin Özmen.
Since then, she keeps dedicating her life to storytelling and documentary projects.
