Oliver Tooke (b. 1990) is a British documentary photographer, currently based in the UK. He mostly works on his own long term personal projects.
Oliver graduated from the Photojournalism and Documentary Photography course at the University of Gloucestershire in 2014 with first class. In September 2014, Oliver was long-listed for the Magnum/Ideastap Photographic Award, was a finalist for the AOP awards in October 2015, shortlisted for the 2015 Bar Tur Photobook Award, and a Grand Prix Finalist and exhibited at the Lodz Foto Festival in 2017.
Currently he is working on a series of projects all set in the Arab world, concerning themes of tragedy, origins, globalisation, missed opportunities, mythology, nationalism, and modernity.
All three parts of the trilogy are still on-going.
UK - (+44) 07437177216
GREECE - (+30) 6940533139
Exhibitions
2019 - East Meets West, Format Photo Festival Digital showcase, Derby, UK.
2019 - East Meets West, Derby Photo Fringe, Derby, UK.
2018 - Journeys, 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