Olivier Laban-Mattei is a French documentary photographer, photojournalist and film director.

[1] After 10 years at Agence France-Presse covering international news (wars in Iraq, Gaza, Georgia, the Iranian uprising, the earthquake in Haiti, Java, the cyclone in Burma...), he began a career as a freelance photographer in 2010.

While continuing to follow certain current events for newspapers (Tunisian revolution, war in Libya, war in Yemen, crisis in South Sudan...), he also devotes himself to long-term projects, such as the one carried out in Mongolia in 2013 and 2014 on the effects of pollution on society,[2] for which he published a book, Mongols (ed Les Belles Lettres, 2013).

[9][10] Between 2016 and 2019, in parallel with his photographic work, he co-directed the documentary film Breathless with Baptiste de Cazenove.

[11] In 2020, with his son Lisandru Laban-Giuliani, he started a project on Greenland society, Neige Noire, mixing photography and anticipation storytelling.