Olivier Laurent

Olivier Laurent is Editor of LightBox at TIME

Recent Articles

Photographing TIME's Person of the Year in Africa, Europe and the U.S.

Sworn to secrecy, photographers Jackie Nickerson and Bryan Schutmaat were on the assignment of a lifetime when TIME asked them to photograph the 2014 Person of the Year -- the Ebola Fighters

By Olivier Laurent

Photographing the White House Christmas Decorations With an iPhone 6

White House photographer Brooks Kraft used his iPhone to document this year's Christmas decorations at the presidential residence

By Olivier Laurent

Go Behind TIME’s Mark Zuckerberg Cover With Photographer Ian Allen

When TIME magazine asked photographer Ian Allen to follow Mark Zuckerberg to India, not everything went as planned

By Olivier Laurent

One of Instagram's Most Popular Users is Deleting All of His Photos

Richard Koci Hernandez plans to delete more than 1,000 images he posted on Instagram

By Olivier Laurent

No, Facebook Is Not Planning to Sell Your Images

Photographers -- amateurs and professionals alike -- are concerned about a notice of Facebook's supposed privacy changes

By Olivier Laurent

Finding Faith and Beauty in the Lives of Orthodox Jewish Women

For four years, Italian photographer Federica Valabrega has photographed the everyday lives of Orthodox Jewish women around the world

By Olivier Laurent

Published Photographs Lead to Death Threats in Pakistan

A photographer has received “a credible and direct threat" against her life after five years of images shot in Pakistan were published in the U.K.

By Olivier Laurent

Go Behind TIME's Benedict Cumberbatch Cover With Photographer Dan Winters

Ahead of the release of Benedict Cumberbatch’s latest film, The Imitation Game, the London-born actor posed for photographer Dan Winters, who produced this week’s TIME cover. When Benedict Cumberbatch walked onto Dan Winters’ set for...

By Olivier Laurent

Sebastian Junger's Fight to Save Journalists' Lives

Ever since the death of his friend and colleague Tim Hetherington, who — along with Getty’s Chris Hondros — was killed in a mortar attack in Libya in April 2011, Sebastian Junger has been advocating...

By Olivier Laurent

Using Instagram to Open a Window on Everyday Life in North Korea

“My motive has always been to open a window on North Korea,” says David Guttenfelder. “There are so few images coming out of there, and yet there’s so much interest.”A former chief photographer at Associated...

By Olivier Laurent

Confronting Mexico's Latest Cruel Massacre

The murders of 43 students have united Mexican families who, for years, have been caught in the crossfires of a never-ending drug war, finds photographer Sebastian Liste

By Olivier Laurent

'Hidden Wounds': Battling PTSD With Music

“We’re currently losing more veterans to suicide than to enemy action. If you ever confront another veteran and they tell you they never thought about killing themselves, they’re lying.” — Steven Diaz, veteran of the...

By Olivier Laurent

Battle-Scarred: Sebastian Junger's Last Patrol Premieres on HBO

The Last Patrol, Sebastian Junger’s third and final chapter in a trilogy of films about war and its devastating effects on soldiers, came to fruition after he and documentary photographer Tim Hetherington made plans to...

By Olivier Laurent

Go Inside Senator Mitch McConnell's Winning Campaign

“Everywhere I look, there’s a little photograph,” says Christopher Morris, a TIME contract photographer who, for the last four days, has been following the next Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell.Morris has had a long fascination...

By Olivier Laurent

Trick or Treat: Kids in Their Halloween Costumes

“I have always been interested in young people and Halloween always miffed me slightly as it seemed like a bizarre contradiction that young innocent children should choose to dress up as characters that haunt their...

By Olivier Laurent

Stiffs, Skulls and Skeletons: Images of the Darker Side of Life

Portraits of dead people used to form an integral part of the grieving process. Today, these images are taboo, but not for Stanley and Elizabeth Burns, who have amassed more than one million images that present a darker side of life

By Paul Moakley and Olivier Laurent

See This Year's Best Portrait Photographs

The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize has become a staple in the photo calendar, drawing crowds to the National Portrait Gallery while reigniting the debate around the characterization of portraiture

By Olivier Laurent

Fred Ritchin Named Dean of the School at ICP

The International Center of Photography is focussing on the future of photography as it appoints photography expert Fred Ritchin to the newly created position of Dean

By Olivier Laurent

Transforming Lives in Burma, One Solar Panel at a Time

In Burma, where only a quarter of the population has access to electricity, solar panels can change lives, as Spanish photographer Ruben Salgado Escudero found out

By Olivier Laurent

Guerrillas in the Streets: The Dysturb Photo Collective Comes to NYC

It’s a typical Thursday night in New York when, on the corner of 10th Avenue and 13th Street, a white Cadillac and a blue Mini Cooper pull over. Five photographers emerge from the cars, carrying...

By Olivier Laurent
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