OliverTooke (b. 1990) is a British documentary photographer. He mostly works on long term personal projects, with work from China,Ukraine and across the Middle East and Europe.
For the past three years, Oliver has been working on a project about Syrians and their exodus to a better life, their mixed dreams of revolution, and the injustices they face where ever they go. The project is a mix of black and white documentary images, mixed with images taken from the phones of Syrians during the war and their journey to safety, creating a collaborative element to the project that reflects the growing importance of technology in personal recording of your surroundings during crisis, and also revealing the delicate and unseen moments that a refugee chooses to record for themselves. Early work from the project has been exhibiting in 2014-2017.
Oliver is represented by LENS2LENS.
UK - (+44) 07437177216
GREECE - (+30) 6940533139
Exhibitions
2018 - Journeys exhibition, Keighley Creative Space, Keighley, UK.
2017 - Lodz Foto Festival, Grand Prix Finalist, Lodz, Poland
2016 - Encontros da Imagem, Photobook Market, Portugal.
2015 - Bar Tur Photobook Award projection, Photographers Gallery, London
2015 - AOP Awards Final, Old Truman Brewery, London
2015 - Photon Festival, Photo Collective projection event, Valencia, Spain.
2015 - Foto39, Bath Arts Festival, UK.
2014 - Foto39, Bristol, UK.
2014 - Magnum/Ideastap Photographic Award, Old Truman Brewery, London
2014 - University of Gloucestershire Degree Show, Cheltenham, UK.
2014 - Retina Photos Exhibition One, Centrespace, Bristol, UK.
2013 - Landscape exhibition, University of Gloucestershire, UK
Awards
2017 - Lodz Foto Festival, Poland, Grand Prix Finalist
2017 - Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Award Winner
2015 - Bar Tur Photobook award Shortlisted, The Photographers Gallery
2015 - AOP Open Awards Finalist
2014 - Slim Hewitt Award, University of Gloucestershire
2014 - Magnum/Ideastap Photographic Award, Shortlisted