Emin Özmen


Emin Özmen is a Turkish photographer, photojournalist and film maker, and is a member of Magnum Photos.

Life and work

Özmen is based in Istanbul. His work focuses on refugees in Turkey and the wider Middle East, including Syria and Iraq.
In 2013 he founded a photography cooperative named Agence Le Journal, which is based in Istanbul.
In 2017, he became a nominee member of Magnum Photos. Özmen became a full member in 2022.
In 2025, he documented the Venezuelan refugee crisis in Colombia, the pictures were exposed in December at the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition in honor of the laureate María Corina Machado.

Awards

Exhibitions