Odile Meylan

Born in Lausanne in 1972, Odile Meylan started off as a primary school teacher but it wasn’t long before she felt the need to do something more challenging. So, she put down her chalk, picked up her rucksack and set off to travel the world. When she got back to Switzerland she bought her first reflex camera and took up photography. Initially self-taught, her enthusiasm led her to start taking evening classes and she worked as an assistant to several photographers before completing her training at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York. In 2002 Odile was taken on by the daily 24 Heures and ended up taking thousands of photos for the paper. At the same time, she collaborated on many projects, producing reportages from all four corners of the globe for the magazine Animan as well as the NGOs Medair and Terre des Hommes.