Photojournalist since 1997, Olivier Papegnies had work with NGO and medias across the globe.

  • Bérénice, 15 years old, is pregnant.She was in secondary school when she had to stop school. She will give birth in a few hours. The nurse, Mireille, is examining her. Kitokomoi Health Centre, Kinshasa, DRC, September, 12 2019. PHOTO OLIVIER PAPEGNIES
  • THE CHILDREN OF TSHATA
    20180515 – BENIN, COTONOU: In Cotonou, the economic capital of Benin, many children between the ages of 5 and 15 live in the Dantokpa market. In this maze full of stalls, children wander around looking for a few hundred CFA francs. For hours, they practice meboto, which consists in sorting ginger, onions, tomatoes… Tshata is their second main activity, these young men collect scrap metal. They wander on huge rubbish dumps in the sky in search of a tin can, electric wires or plastic bottles, May, 15 2018. PHOTO OLIVIER PAPEGNIES
  • KOGLWEOGO, MIRROR OF A STATE FAILURE
    20171014 – BURKINA FASO, FADA N’GOURMA: Thirteen new members have joined the Koglweogo group in Potiamanga, which now consists of 36 people. « We will have to increase the number of members further to eradicate big banditry in the locality, » says Combary Nindia, the president of the Potiamanga association. « To become a Koglweogo, you have to adhere to the rules and take part in the initiation, » he adds, with all the black magic that is omnipresent in Koglweogo activity. It is said that when you hit a thug, it is the evil in him that you make disappear. October 14, 2017. PHOTO OLIVIER PAPEGNIES
  • KOGLWEOGO, MIRROR OF A STATE FAILURE
    20171016 – BURKINA FASO, ZAONGO: Boureima Nadbanka, chief of the Koglweogo of the Namentenga province attends the mourning ceremony of a member of the association. The festive event takes place in the village of Zaongo, about thirty kilometres from Boulsa. The charismatic chief is welcomed with honours: griots and « masks » dance for him. « The Koglweogo chiefs are community leaders. No one would question their role, » explains Aimé Béogo, who knows the issue inside out. January 16, 2018. PHOTO OLIVIER PAPEGNIES
  • KOGLWEOGO, MIRROR OF A STATE FAILURE
    20171011 – BURKINA FASO, FADA N’GOURMA: scenes from life in Fada N’Gourma. The Eastern region, once classified as a « red zone » in terms of insecurity, had the highest number of armed attacks in the country. Major banditry, robberies and violent hold-ups have been daily since the early 2000s, paralyzing commercial activities. « Between 2010 and 2014, attacks had increased significantly, including the use of weapons of war, » said Professor ra-Sabla Ouédraogo. Theft of livestock and goods, robberies, roadblocks, rapes, cross-border banditry networks, these were the evils that plagued Burkinabe society, terrorizing a population reduced to silence. October 11, 2017. PHOTO OLIVIER PAPEGNIES
  • KOGLWEOGO, MIRROR OF A STATE FAILURE
    20171009 – BURKINA FASO, FADA N’GOURMA: The Koglweogo group of Fada N’Gourma, currently meeting under the busiest tree in a vast plain on the edge of the city, has found a place to build its new headquarters. The building, consisting of four cramped rooms, will serve as a « prison », allowing the alleged perpetrators to be held for the duration of the investigation. « When they talk about arrest and detention, the Koglweogo are actually guilty of kidnapping, » said Ismael Gnaon, a magistrate from the Fada N’Gourma court. October 9, 2017. PHOTO OLIVIER PAPEGNIES
  • UNWANTED
    The story of Jacqueline, who became pregnant at the age of 17, is common here in Soubré, Ivory Coast. She was only in ninth grade and she did not want a child. Her only dream was to continue her schooling to become a teacher. However, she saw her dreams shattered when she had consensual but unprotected sex with a classmate. She knew nothing about contraceptive methods. She had never used a condom or heard of pills. Disowned and thrown out on the street by her parents, she found refuge with her grandmother. With the help of Médecins du Monde France, she will benefit from medical and psycho-social follow-up throughout her pregnancy. Since then she has had her little Julien and has been able to go back to school. Ivory Coast, September, 25 2018. PHOTO OLIVIER PAPEGNIES
  • 20191126 – MEXIQUE, HIDALGO: Migrants pour MdM, le 26 novembre 2019. PHOTO OLIVIER PAPEGNIES / COLLECTIF HUMA
  • 20161024 – FRANCE, CALAIS: Premiere journée du demantelement de la jungle a Calais. Le 24 octobre 2016. PHOTO OLIVIER PAPEGNIES / COLLECTIF HUMA
  • 20191126 – MEXIQUE, TAPACHULA: Migrants pour MdM, le 26 novembre 2019. PHOTO OLIVIER PAPEGNIES / COLLECTIF HUMA
  • WTFOOT
    Belasse Tchari got up every morning of his life to work in his field, feed his 7 children and buy enough money to wash their uniforms. In the remote village of Gouande, she has done everything she can so that Virginie and her two sisters can go to secondary school like their brothers. A goal that she had to achieve alone since her husband did not want to hear about it. She is also among the first mothers to have encouraged her daughter in her desire to play football, a project supported by Plan International Benin. « Many people have asked me how I could let her play when it’s a boys’ sport, but I never wanted to stop Virginie from doing something for her own development. How can I not be happy today? My daughter takes care of her health, develops a lot of knowledge and has friends all over Benin. Benin, Atacora, Gouande, Benin, Atacora, Gouande, 21 February 2019 In two years, the footballers from the village of Gouande, in northern Benin, have made their mark and blazed new trails. Refusing to be confined to the status of women who are fragile, incompetent or solely dedicated to motherhood, they have come together to defend their place on all the fields. PHOTO OLIVIER PAPEGNIES
  • 20160207 – JORDANIE, AL ZA’ATARI : Camp de réfugiés syriens de Za’atari. Le 7 fevrier 2016. PHOTO OLIVIER PAPEGNIES / COLLECTIF HUMA
  • 20150730 – LIBAN, ZAHLE: Visite de famille de refugies syriens avec Handicap International dans les camps de deplaces. Zahle, le 30 juillet 2015. PHOTO OLIVIER PAPEGNIES / COLLECTIF HUMA
  • GUINNESS BEER IN GANVIE
    20170406 – BENIN, GANVIE: A pirogue delivers Guinness beer to the lakeside town of Ganvié in Benin. April 6, 2017. PHOTO OLIVIER PAPEGNIES
  • MEDITERRANEAN FISHERMEN
    Mediterranean fishermen, Alger, Algeria, March 27, 2012. © OLIVIER PAPEGNIES
  • 20161224 – LIBAN: Les chretiens du liban, le 24 decembre 2016. PHOTO OLIVIER PAPEGNIES / COLLECTIF HUMA
  • 20150619 – BELGIQUE, WATERLOO: Bicentenaire 1815-2015. Reconstitution de la bataille de Waterloo, le 19 juin 2015. PHOTO OLIVIER PAPEGNIES / COLLECTIF HUMA
  • 20150620 – BELGIQUE, WATERLOO: Bicentenaire 1815-2015. Reconstitution de la bataille de Waterloo, le 20 juin 2015. PHOTO OLIVIER PAPEGNIES / COLLECTIF HUMA
  • RWANDA RED CROSS MOVIE
    Children watching a Red Cross movie about hygiene in Gisagara village. Rwanda, February 14, 2015. © OLIVIER PAPEGNIES
  • 20120322 – KINDU, RDC: Illustration de la formation de commandos congolais par les para-commandos belges dans le cadre du programme de partenariat militaire. le 22 mars 2012. LE SOIR MAGAZINE PHOTO OLIVIER PAPEGNIES
  • 20100116 – PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI: Illustration Picture shows earthquake in Port-au-Prince, the 16 January 2010 in Haiti. PHOTO OLIVIER PAPEGNIES
  • 20100116 – PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI: Illustration Picture shows earthquake in Port-au-Prince, the 16 January 2010 in Haiti. PHOTO OLIVIER PAPEGNIES
  • 20110326 – PENSACOLA , FLORIDA: A beach of Floride, a year after the oilspill due to the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oilrig, recklessness seems to be present. No trace of petrol on the sand. A cleanliness that makes you forget that the petrol is still at large, mixed with dispersants, laying on the seabed. March 26, 2011. PHOTO OLIVIER PAPEGNIES 20110326 – PENSACOLA , FLORIDA: Une plage de Floride, un an apres la maree noire due a l’explosion de la plateforme Deepwater Horizon. L’insouciance est de bon aloi. Aucune trace de petrole sur le sable. Une proprete qui fait oublier que le petrole est toujours la, au large, melange au dispersant, pose sur les fond marins. March 26, 2011. PHOTO OLIVIER PAPEGNIES
  • 2001-12 BANC D ARGUIN – MAURITANIA: Rangée dans des casiers, la récolte du jour est débarquée sur la plage dans l’attente de l’arrivée du mareyeur. En fonction du prix du marché et de la qualité du poisson, celui-ci fixera la rétribution des pêcheurs. PHOTO OLIVIER PAPEGNIES / COLLECTIF HUMA
  • DRC, LIFE UNDER EBOLA
    Students at the Mapendo Institute in Kasabinyole, in the town of Beni, a neighbourhood regularly targeted by the ADF, one of the deadliest armed groups in eastern DRC. Half of the students are no longer attending school because their families have fled the violence and left the area. On that day, they participate in an awareness raising session to dispel doubts and fears about the disease. Beni, North Kivu, DRC, November 12, 2019. PHOTO © OLIVIER PAPEGNIES
  • KOGLWEOGO, MIRROR OF A STATE FAILURE
    20171021 – BURKINA FASO, SAPOUY: Koglweogo claim unity. « Thanks to the Koglweogo, the customary chiefs meet and forge ties, » uniting the population in a movement of solidarity « beyond ethnic affiliations and religious beliefs, » says Sapouy’s Nabaa. Today, the movement is weaving its web and trying, despite differences in ideas and practices, to structure itself at the national level. January 21, 2018. PHOTO OLIVIER PAPEGNIES
  • FRONTERA
    With more than 1,000 kilometers of wall from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, the border between Mexico and the United States stretches for 3,150 kilometers. Nicknamed the torilla border, it runs mainly through arid and sparsely populated areas. Many candidates for exile want to cross the wall to find work and a better life on the other side, in the USA. But not all of them want to cross to the other side. Whether they live in Tijuana, Nogales, Cuidad Juarez or along the Rio Grande River, many have chosen to live along the frontera. PHOTO OLIVIER PAPEGNIES
  • DESERT
    20190131 – FRANCE, SAINT-ELOY LES MINES:rom the top of his hill, Pascal (51) has a view overlooking the valley of Saint-Eloy-les-Mines. Accompanied by his two dogs, he receives an indemnity of 860Û/month for a handicapped person following a motorcycle accident. Pascal defines himself as a revolutionary. Flayed alive, he lives on the margins of society. He hasn’t slept in his house for almost 10 years following a love break-up. « It’s too hard for me, it brings back too many memories. I prefer to go to sleep every night in my truck. That’s where I feel good. January 31, 2019. PHOTO OLIVIER PAPEGNIES
  • DRC, LIFE UNDER EBOLA
    View from the sky, UN helicopter flight over the equatorial forest to reach the city of Mambasa, Ituri, DRC, November 11, 2019. The territory of Mambasa is covered by dense forest that is part of the second largest tropical forest in the world. When weather conditions permit, the helicopter remains the preferred means of transport for Ebola response teams operating in these hard-to-reach areas. PHOTO © OLIVIER PAPEGNIES
  • DESERT
    20190413 – FRANCE, SAINT-ELOY LES MINES: The Pays des Combrailles and in particular its northern part presents a worrying level of precariousness; 22.5% of the population lived below the poverty line in 2008 against 16.7% in the department of Puy de D™me. As in many French rural areas, the inhabitants of the Combrailles region have been witnessing for years to the reduction of public transport networks, the provision of health care… Saint-Eloy-les-Mines in Auvergne, a former prosperous mining town, is now part of this peripheral France which is experiencing geographical and social isolation: a deserted town centre, a lack of healthcare facilities, a poor public transport network and a high unemployment rate. This is an explosive cocktail of precariousness and rurality. April 13, 2019. © OLIVIER PAPEGNIES
  • Fous d'amour
    « Ca cíest la villa ‡ líinterieur en Normandie. Anne et Pierre ralent tous les deux, ils síentendent plus avec et apres ils se remettent ensemble. » Le 15 juillet 2012, Saint-Pierre en Port, Haute Normandie, France. PHOTO OLIVIER PAPEGNIES LES LEGENDES ONT ETE REDIGEES PAR LES RESIDENTS DE LA MAISONNEE, CENTRE POUR PERSONNES HANDICAPEES MENTALES.
  • WOMEN FOOTBALL CLUB
    Olivia, 19, came in with her 8-month-old daughter. She’s playing with her mother and her cousin. Miguel Maldonaro, coach at the Gonzo academy, sees football as a way to prevent early pregnancies, which are numerous in the country. Mexico, Tijuana, 2 June 2019. PHOTO OLIVIER PAPEGNIES