Emin Özmen studied physics at 19 Mayis University in Samsun, before moving on to photographic studies in the Fine Arts Faculty at Marmara University of Istanbul.

In 2008, he published two photobooks, "Humans of Anatolia" and "Microcredit Stories in Turkey", a collection of stories on women who were able to access a microcredit in Turkey.

That same year, he obtained a degree in Media Photography and Documentary (photography) at the University of Art and Design in Linz, Austria. In 2011, his work on famine in East Africa was published in a book and he worked on the disaster of Tohoku Earthquake...