Born in 1970 in Nivelles, Belgium. Lives and works in Brussels. Member of the Huma collective. Olivier Papegnies became a photojournalist in 1997. His reports have been published in the Belgian and international press, including in La Libre Belgique and Le Monde, both of which he collaborates with. He also works with various NGOS, such as Médecins du Monde and Handicap International.
He has won several prizes, notably the Special Jury Prize at the Scoop and Journalism festival in Angers, the Belfius prize in 2010, the NPPA (Nikon Press Photo Award) in 2011 and the Journalism Prize awarded by the Walloon-Brussels Parliament in 2012 for his work Fous d’Amour. In 2015, he won a bursary from the ‘fund for journalism’ to enable him to conduct a survey into Christians in Lebanon. In 2017, he won another bursary, to accompany Valentine Van Vyve to investigate the Koglweogo self-defence groups in Burkina Faso, and in 2018, his report Koglweogo, miroir d’une faillite d’Etat was awarded the ‘Visa d’or de l’information numérique franceinfo’ by ‘Visa pour l’image’ in Perpignan. With the Huma collective, he is currently working on the project What the Foot, a report into women’s football round the world.
