Olivier Culmann

Olivier Culmann (born February 26, 1970 in the 15th arrondissement of Paris) is a French photographer who studied photography at ESRA. He mentions among his influences the humanistic photography (particularly Henri Cartier-Bresson), although the spirit of his images gradually borrows more from the humor of Buster Keaton (“the man who never laughed”), of Arthur Penn (Little Big Man) or comics (Jean-Jacques Sempé, Jean-Marc Reiser).
He is the 1997 winner of the Villa Médicis hors les murs; 2003 winner of the Roger-Pic Scam Prize; 2004 Fujifilm Euro Press Photo winner; nominated by the World Press in 2007 as the third best photographer in the world in the “Contemporary Subjects” category; he is also the 2017 winner of the prestigious Niépce Prize.