Emin Özmen is concerned with documenting human rights violations in his home country of Turkey and around the world.

Özmen studied photography in the Fine Arts Faculty at Marmara University of Istanbul. In 2008, he obtained a degree in Documentary photography at the University of Art and Design in Linz, Austria.

In 2011, he worked on famine in Somalia and Kenya, on disaster of Japan Earthquake-Tsunami and economic protests in Greece. The following year, he started covering the Syrian civil war and IS crisis in Iraq, which he continues to document. Since then, he has worked in South Sudan, Niger, Nigeria, Venezuela, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Ukraine among other countries.

His work has been published by TIME magazine, New York Times, National Geographic, Washington Post, Der Spiegel, Le Monde magazine M, Paris Match, Newsweek, among others.

Özmen has won several awards, among them two World Press Photo awards and 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.
His first book 'Olay' published by Mack on 2023.

Özmen joined Magnum Photos in 2017, became full member on 2022 and elected as vice president on 2024.

He currently lives between Paris and Istanbul.