Edward Olive

Edward Olive



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Edward Olive is a fine art, commercial and wedding & portrait photographer. Photography awards • First Prize in Wedding Photography and Second Prize in Portrait Photography in The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards WPGA August Contest/Pollux Awards 2011 • Runner Up in the Still Life category of the 2010 Project 2011 • 2nd place award in the International Photography Awards in the category Fine Art - Nudes and Honourable mention in the categories Professional Wedding and Pet photography 2011 • First Prize in the Worldwide Photography Gala Awards May Contest Pollux Awards Portfolio Section - Professional Photographers Figure and Nude 2011 • Second Prize & Special Mention of the Jury in The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards 2nd Edition of the Black & White Competition in the category Nude & Figure 2011 • Runner Up Award in the Chasing The Light Juried Photography Pet photography Who’s your best friend? 2011 • Prix de Paris Px3 nominated Px3 Official Selection in the categories Portraiture/Wedding, Portraiture/Personality, Portraiture/Children, Press/People/Personality, Fine Art/Nudes, Nature, Advertising/Book Cover, Advertising/Annual Reports and People's Choice First Prize in the category Advertising/Annual Reports, 2 Silver Awards in the categories Advertising/ Book covers and Nature and 2 Honourable Mentions in the category Fine art nudes 2011 • 2nd Prize and 3rd Prize in The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards 2011 April Pollux Awards Contest in the category Figure and Nude 2011 • Honourable mention in The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards Best Shot Competition 2011 • 3rd place winner in the ephotoawards.com art photography competition “Color Awards 2011” • Special Mention of the Juror in The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards WPGA The Beauty Around Us Contest 2011 • Gold Award In the The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards (WPGA) Portrait & People 2011 • Runner Up in the Chasing the light - Landscapes – Beyond The Mundane Photo Competition 2011 • First prize in the professional wedding category of the 2010 WPGA The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards Annual Pollux Awards 2010 • Third place finalist in the photography competition V Concurso fotográfico FOTO DNG 2010 • Finalist in the WPGA Worldwide Photography Gala Awards / The Pollux Awards in the Professional Photographers categories: Children, Figure & nude, Macro & Micro, Still Life, Wedding 2010 • Nominated for the Premios Gràffica 2010 • Honourable mention in the category fine art nudes in PX3 Le Prix de la Photographie Paris 2010 • 1st Place - Fantasy Outstanding Achievement award and the title of Fantasy Photographer of the Year in the Global Photo Awards 2010 • Winner of the Daily Telegraph Telegraph.co.uk Photo competition: Sunshine and winner of the The Daily Telegraph Photo competition: Forgotten 2010 • Finalist in The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards - Urban & country landscape contest and their The Dominant Colour Contest 2010 • Selection of the Hasselblad Masters in the category fashion & beauty 2010 • International Photography Awards 3rd place prize in the Advertising : Book Cover pro category with his cover for Italian novel by Lucia Tilde Ingrosso – “Io so tutto di lei" and honourable mentions in the categories Fine Art - Nudes, Fine Art - Still Life, People - Other, Nature - Flowers, People - Lifestyle and in Advertising - Annual Report category for the winning entry "GFMS Annual Platinum Survey" 2010 • Fourth Place Award in the ARTROM Gallery, Rome, Italy’s TOPTEN Split Second Impulse International Photography Competition 2010 • Nominated as finalist in the International Photography Awards and finalist in the wedding & social category of the Hasselblad Masters 2009 • First prize of the Jury of PHotoEspaña PHE in their competition "Otoño al aire libre" 2009 • Winner of the analogue photography competition “Mi mejor positivado” organised by photography magazine La Fotografía and Kodak Spain 2008 Photography exhibitions • The Collective art photography exhibition Third edition of Fotox1000, the largest photo exhibition in FotoGrafia 42, the International Festival of Photography of Rome 2011 • The collective contemporary photography exhibition “Shut up and shoot” at the Black Box Gallery in Portland, Oregon USA 2011 • The Kid Stuff collective exhibition of child portraits and photojournalism in the 1650 Gallery in Los Angeles California USA 2011 • The Hasselblad Masters 2009 exhibitions in Copenhagen, London, New York & Hong Kong 2010 • Citypulse exhibitions, "Biosphere", "Stop Making Sense" in 2009 and "Por Chile" and "Sensual" in the Galería Moro in Santiago (Chile) 2010 • The collective exhibition of nature and landscape photography III EXPO ESREC "El agua despertando a la primavera" in the nature museum Valle del Alberche, el Barraco Ávila Spain 2010 • FOTOX1000 II Futurspectives 2010 in Rome Italy, a collective exhibition of fine art photography 2010 • PHotoEspaña PHE 2009 “El agua de Madrid” in Canal de Isabel II, Madrid, Spain 2009 • “Rioja en los Sexto Sentidos” in Bodegas Franco Españolas, La Rioja (Spain) 2008 Publications His pictures have been featured in numerous newspapers, art, photography, bridal, music and urban culture, fitness & sports magazines including El Mundo Yo Dona, Strongbox magazine, Hyde Park Photography Magazine, Anormalmag, Snapixel magazine, French photography review Le Negatif mag, Spanish La Fotografía Digital y Actual, La Fotografía Social, Carne Visual Arts Magazine, Citypulse, Serie B, Hip Hop Nation, Hipflow, Urban Fit, Oui magazine, Outside Magazine, Gear Patrol and Aire Libre. His photography has been included in various books inluding the IPA Lucie Foundation Annual Book of Photography in 2011 and 2010, the Citypulse Fine art photography book "City of Women" and Unlimited Grain Portraits from THIAPS, The International Analogue Photographic Society . In 2009 the first book of his photography was published "Private collection" featuring a series of his analog fine art erotica. His pictures have also been used as books covers including the crime thriller by Australian writer Peter Temple "Mediator", the novel by Lucia T. Ingrosso "Io so tutto di lei" and for the 2010 annual Gold Survey and Platinum Survey published by GFMS and included in “Everyman’s Marx” by Roger Gatham & Jake Davis. Edward Olive 0034 605610767 edwardolive@hotmail.com http://www.edwardolive.info/ “Uno de los más prestigiosos fotógrafos, y flamante ganador del World Photography Gala Awards 2010, en fotografía de bodas.” “Número uno de la fotografía de bodas en España. Edward Olive es un talentoso y multipremiado fotógrafo que realiza un trabajo único en esta materia, tanto a nivel de su técnica como de su arte.” http://www.flickr.com/photos/edwardolive/sets/72157617750825584/ http://twitter.com/#!/edwardolive http://www.facebook.com/edwardolive?ref=profile