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Olivier Asselin grew up in Eastern Quebec, Canada, where he studied and worked in the IT field before dedicating himself to photography.

He graduated in 2004 from the Western Academy of Photography in Victoria, British Columbia, and spent the following year shooting and writing for newspapers in Western Canada and Morocco.

Currently based out of Dakar, Senegal, he has lived in West and Central Africa since 2005 and continues to shoot throughout the continent for development and humanitarian organizations, as well as commercial or editorial clients.

Olivier has worked on assignment in over 15 countries throughout Africa.

He is fluent in English, French and Spanish and has a working knowledge of Portuguese. He is available for assignments worldwide.

His first book Nwentoma : Visual notes from West Africa, was published in 2007.

Olivier is a member of the Rogue Collective. 

  


CLIENTS

Associated Press
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
CAMFED
GAVI Alliance 
Global Forum for Health Research
Handicap International Senegal
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Médecins Sans Frontières
The New York Times
Panos London
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
UN Food and Agriculture Association (FAO)
USAID's West Africa Trade Hub
USAID's TIPCEE
Save the Children UK
World Health Organization (WHO)



PUBLICATIONS
The National, U.A. Emirates
Newsday, USA
E Magazine, USA
MSNBC.COM, USA
BBC Online, UK
The Guardian Unlimited, UK
Washington Post, USA
Afrique Magazine, France
Jeune Afrique, France
Courrier Japon, Japan		 TIME, USA
Newsweek, USA
The New York Times, USA
Le Nouvel Observateur, France
Chicago Tribune, USA
Boston Globe, USA
Toronto Star, Canada
Vancouver Sun, Canada
National Post, Canada
Reader's Digest Canada
ARISE Magazine



HONORS
2011   Magenta Foundation's Flash Forward
Selected as one of Magenta Foundation's Emerging Photographers
     
News Photographers Association of Canada - Photo of the Year
Honorable mention - Picture Story category
Honorable mention - Social Issues category 
 
2010   PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris
Winner - Second place - Photojournalism/other
Winner - Third place - Portraiture
     
2009   Magenta Foundation's Flash Forward
Selected as one of Magenta Foundation's Emerging Photographers 
     
2008   News Photographers Association of Canada - Photo of the Year
Winner - Third place - Sports feature category
     
    PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris
The Human Condition Photo Contest
Honorable mention
     
2007   Gordon Parks International Photo Contest
Winner, Third Place
     
    X Luis Valtueña Award for Humanitarian Photography
Honorable mention
     
2006   IX Luis Valtueña Award for Humanitarian Photography
Winner, Another World is Possible special award
     
    Eddie Adams Workshop, Barnstorm XIX
     
2004   Western Academy of Photography
- Best overall student
- Best photojournalist
- Best photo essay
- Best portfolio
- Best image
     

 

EXHIBITIONS
2008   Inside Out: A collection of Ghanaian stories (solo exhibition)
Alliance Française, Accra, Ghana
     
2007   Regard sur l'industrie minière au Ghana/A look on the Ghanaian mining industry
Théâtre À la Petite licorne, Montréal, Canada
     
    Human Trafficking: Images of Vulnerability (group exhibition)
United Nations Visitors Gallery, New York, USA
     
2006   The Naked Truth (group exhibition)
Center for Fine Art photography, Fort Collins, CO. USA
     
2004   Light Sensitive (group exhibition)
CAC Arts Centre, Victoria, Canada

 
On assignment in Danane, Cote d'Ivoire, May 2011