Emin Özmen is a Turkish documentary photographer, born in 1985, and a member of Magnum Photos. His work focuses on memory, identity, social change, and the lives of people affected by political and historical events. He studied photography at Marmara University in Istanbul and documentary photography at the University of Art and Design in Linz, Austria. He became a Magnum nominee in 2017 and a full member in 2022.
His photographs have appeared in TIME, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Der Spiegel, and Le Monde. He has received two World Press Photo awards and the Public Jury Photo Prize at the Bayeux Calvados Awards for War Correspondents. His first photobook, Olay (MACK, 2023), records ten turbulent years in Turkey, from 2013 to the February 2023 earthquakes.
His second book, Memleket (self-published, 2026), gathers 118 photographs of everyday life made over more than fifteen years of travel across Turkey. He made these quieter pictures alongside Olay, as moments to breathe during a difficult period. He lives between Paris and Istanbul. (Website, Instagram, Facebook, X)
