Olivia has photographed world leaders, searched the Andaman Sea for people traffickers and hung off the side of buildings all in pursuit of a great photograph. She is driven to create beautiful images from personal stories.
She works globally for a range of editorial and commercial clients including Time magazine, the New York Times, Save The Children and the Guardian amongst others.
Olivia is always working on a personal project - most recently Days On Repeat, a dazzling, sun soaked look at how Londoner’s came to terms with the first (but not the last) lockdown. It is now a book and exhibition.
Her work has been widely awarded, published and exhibited. You’ll have seen her prize winning work in Creative Review, World Press Photo, Arts Council England, Foreign Press Award, Visa Pour L’Image, Open Walls Arles, DOCField Barcelona, International Photography Awards, Gallery of Photography Ireland, Photo Bogota, Guardian Photographer of the Year, Reuters Our World Now, Hoxton Mini Press, We Present and a global touring exhibition of pictures Resilience - stories of Women Inspiring Change.
She trained as a photojournalist for Reuters, covering Asia and running picture operations out of Kuala Lumpur before returning to the UK.
She lives in London.
Selected Clients;The Guardian, Creative Review, Time Magazine, An0ther Magazine, The Guardian Magazine, Creative Lives in Progress, We Present, Stylist Magazine, i-D Magazine, The Times, Der Speigel, Stern Magazine, Save The Children, BBC, Reuters, The Observer (New Review), Hoxton Mini Press
Selected Awards; Arts Council England, 2021, World Press Photo, Creative Review, Photographs of the Year, 2020, First prize Stories, 2019, Foreign Press Award, Stories, 2019, International Photography Awards, 2016, The Guardian Photographer of the Year, 2015, New York Times Photo of the Year, 2014, Lucie Awards, 2014, PDN Awards, 2013
Exhibitions; Days on Repeat, solo exhibition, Springfield, Hackney, Summer 2022, Resilience, stories of Women Inspiring Change, World Press Photo touring exhibition, 2022, Protest! Gallery of Photography Ireland, 2022, Days on Repeat, Haggerston, Hackney, Summer 2021, Beauty as Protest, Iris Studios, 2020, Blessed be the Fruit,Visa Pour L’Image, 2019, Blessed be the Fruit, World Press Photo 2019, Touring 100 cities and 45 countries 2019, Blessed be The Fruit, solo exhibition, DocField Barcelona, November 2018, Open Walls Arles, 2018, Force Majeure, Photo Bogota Colombia, 2016
