Olivier Laurent

Olivier Laurent is Editor of LightBox at TIME

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Magnum Photos, and Founders, Will Come to Life in Upcoming TV Show

Carnival Films, which produces the Emmy-award winning Downton Abbey, will develop the as-yet untitled series. “Carnival has been talking to Magnum about this project for quite a long time,” Magnum’s Executive Director David Kogan says....

By Olivier Laurent

A Cold Place, With No Curves: Life Inside Belgian Prisons

“My goal was to show the reality of these places, without the photographic clichés,” says Belgium photographer Sebastien Van Malleghem, who, for the past three years, has gained access to and photographed everyday life inside...

By Olivier Laurent

A Truth Beyond Photojournalism: Cristina de Middel's Nigerian Journey

Until 2013, Spanish photographer Cristina de Middel had never been to Africa, despite producing the critically acclaimed book, The Afronauts, a work of photographic fiction based on the true story of Zambia’s 1960s failed space...

By Olivier Laurent

#LightBoxFF: Follow the Hong Kong Protests on Instagram with Photographer Alex Ogle

As tensions in Hong Kong show no sign of abating, a few journalists and photographers have turned to Instagram to document the historic struggle between students and the Chinese government. Agence France-Presse photographer Alex Ogle is one of them. He speaks to TIME LightBox

By Olivier Laurent

See How a Photographer is Covering Ebola’s Deadly Spread

Reportage by Getty Images photographer Daniel Berehulak has been in Monrovia, Liberia for the past five weeks documenting, for the New York Times, the Ebola outbreak that has claimed the lives of more than 3,000 people as of Sept. 26, 2014. His images are published in TIME this week.

By Olivier Laurent

See How a Photographer is Covering Ebola's Deadly Spread

In Liberia, Ebola is known as the "silent killer". For the past six weeks, photographer Daniel Beherulak has been covering the virus' deadly spread for the New York Times – an assignment fraught with danger. Berehulak and the Times' International Picture Editor tell TIME LightBox how they're working to mitigate the risks

By Olivier Laurent

#LightBoxFF: A Call for Social Change on Instagram

The Open Society Foundations' mission is to promote social change and the defense of human rights around the world, a task reflected in the organization's Instagram feed

By Olivier Laurent

Cause Beautiful: Hipstamatic Aims to Empower Young People

Mobile photography app Hipstamatic has launched Cause Beautiful, a philanthropic foundation that will empower inner-city kids to use photography to document their own communities.

By Olivier Laurent

Meet the Photographers Covering Africa's Forgotten Conflict

Meet three photographers covering the often overlooked Central African Republic, a region that seems to make headlines only when violence and poverty strike.

By Olivier Laurent

When Amateur Photographers Make the Front Page

Are camera phone-equipped amateurs to blame for professional photographers' financial woes? A new exhibition, now on show at the Visa pour l'Image photojournalism festival, aims to bring a definite answer to the question.

By Olivier Laurent

How the Selfie Stick Is Killing the Selfie

The “selfie stick”—a small, articulated monopod designed for cell phone-wielding photographers—is, by all accounts, more popular than ever. “[Just last month], I’ve seen several around midtown Manhattan, including inside Grand Central Terminal and outside the...

By Olivier Laurent

Instagram Wants Hyperlapse To Be 'Another Way of Seeing'

The new iOS app makes it easier to create time-lapse videos

By Olivier Laurent

Instagram Wants Hyperlapse To Be 'Another Way of Seeing'

Hyperlapse, Instagram's newest iOS app, makes it easier to create time-lapse videos. But will it lead to the new creative forms it hopes to inspire?

By Olivier Laurent

Everyday Life Around the World as Told Through Instagram

Photographer Peter DiCampo and writer Austin Merrill never intended to start an international movement when they launched Everyday Africa in early 2012. Their initial goal was to act against the visual clichés and stereotypes about...

By Olivier Laurent

Inside Ferguson With Photographers From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“When all the world’s media leaves, this is still our neighborhood,” the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s director of photography Lynden Steele recently told TIME. “We have to work knowing that what we do now will come...

By Olivier Laurent

Tragedy on Mount Sinjar

The Yezidis – one of Iraq’s oldest and most secretive sects – believe that following the great biblical flood, Noah and his ark came to rest on Mount Sinjar, a range of mountains that run...

By Olivier Laurent

The Reach of War: Chronicling a Day With Doctors Without Borders

Doctors Without Borders sent four photographers and filmmakers to Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon to document one day in the lives of its doctors as they work to help Syrian refugees

By Olivier Laurent

Moises Saman Captures Dramatic Images of Iraqi Helicopter Crash

A helicopter delivering aid to Yazidi civilians crashed in Northern Iraq, killing its pilot and injuring several passengers including photographer Moises Saman, an award-winning Magnum photographer on assignment for TIME.Speaking shortly after the crash, Saman...

By Olivier Laurent

Inside the Tower of David, the World's Tallest Squat

Venezuelan photographer Alejandro Cegarra, this year's Ian Parry Scholarship winner, documented Caracas' Tower of David, the world's tallest squat, just months before it was evacuated. He speaks to TIME LightBox

By Olivier Laurent

#LightBoxFF: Loulou d'Aki's Daily Diary of Destruction in Gaza

Loulou d'Aki has spent the last few years documenting life inside Gaza. When Israel launched Operation Protective Edge last month, the Swedish freelance photographer started using Instagram to share the "horrific, emotional, sad and appalling stories" she encounters

By Olivier Laurent
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