Emin Özmen (b. 1985, Turkey) is a Magnum photographer based in Istanbul, Turkey. For more than fifteen years, he has undertaken a long project of photographic documentation of the social, climatic, and civil troubles that shake the world, in his country in particular. His work has been published by TIME, The New York Times, Wash-ington Post, Der Spiegel, Le Monde magazine M, Paris Match, and Newsweek, among others. Özmen has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including two World Press Photo awards, the Philip Jones Griffiths Award, the Public Prize of The Bayeux Calvados awards for war correspondents. He was a member of the jury of 2016 and 2018 World Press Photo Multimedia contests.
Cloé Kerhoas (b. 1987, France) is an historian, photography consultant, and photo editor. A long-term collaborator of Emin Özmen, she has been working on the Olay project for several years and co-edited this book with him.