Olivier Laurent is a foreign photo editor at The Washington Post, working with the organization’s network of 27 reporters based in 19 foreign locations to offer a comprehensive international report, with a special focus on Africa, Asia and the Middle East. He also partners with the Post’s social team on photo-driven initiatives and contributes to InSight, the Post’s photography section. In 2019, he was part of the climate team that won the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for the 2ºC: Beyond the Limit series, which “showed with scientific clarity the dire effects of extreme temperature.

Laurent shared in winning, with his colleagues, the 2021 Innovative Storytelling Award.