Olivier Laban-Mattei has been a photojournalist since 1999. After a decade working with AFP, covering national and international news (wars in Iraq, Georgia, Gaza, insurgency in Iran, earthquakes in Java and Haiti, a cyclone in Burma…), he began focusing on long-term projects starting in 2010.A member of the MYOP agency since 2013, his internationally recognized work has received numerous awards, including three World Press Photo awards, two Paris-Match awards, two POY awards, and two Days Japan awards. His work is also regularly exhibited and screened, notably at the Visa pour l’Image photojournalism festival.Currently, his reflections primarily center on the issue of societal breakdown. New forms of colonialism are also at the core of his concerns.In 2022, as a recipient of a grant from the French Ministry of Culture and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, as part of a major national commission on France, he turned his lens on the new peasantry, seen as guardians of a fairer world.

Lisandru Laban-Giuliani is a master’s student in political science at Sciences Po Paris’s School of Research (specializing in Comparative Politics) and a method conference instructor at the same institution. He is also co-author of the book Mongols (Les Belles Lettres, 2013).Since 2016, he has been involved in several associations supporting exiles and the underprivileged, as well as environmental protection efforts.His passion for writing, nurtured through encounters with various writers such as Patrick Chamoiseau and Mathias Enard, has developed alongside his training in the humanities and social sciences.In 2020, he received a special mention from the Books Criticism Prize. In addition to the Max Lazard Prize for his writing project on the future of Greenland, he also won the Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet Foundation’s Vocation Prize to support his academic endeavors.