Edward Olive

Fine art photographer, actor and mixed media multidisclipinary artist.

Edward Olive is a fine art, commercial, female erotic nude, boudoir, wedding, social event, corporate, commercial, advertising & portrait photographer based out of Madrid Spain.

His work is regularly sold as book and music album cover sleeves and featured in magazines and newspapers around the world.

Edward's photography comes principally from hand developed expired films shot on vintage analog cameras and handmade darkroom black & white silver gelatin and c-type colour prints that he makes personally.

Bio

Edward Olive is a self taught fine art, wedding & portrait photographer, painter sketch artist and graphic creator based out of Madrid, Spain.

Edward Olive was a commercial litigation lawyer in London & Paris until throwing in the towel to pursue his more artistic interests. Edward got into photography by chance only in 2005 when he purchased his first camera, an entry level digital reflex Canon 350d to shoot his own actor’s book on a tripod with remote control. Finding he enjoyed the experience he started shooting actor and musician friends and the people living and working in his neighborhood Chueca (Central Madrid’s equivalent of Soho or Le Marais).

Dissatisfied with the focused perfection of modern digital images and seeking an alternative look for his pictures he started adapting analog lenses (he extracted from broken old cameras with a large metal hammer we understand) onto his digital reflex using masking tape and built DIY lighting from microphone stands, disco lights and Kelvin correction gelatin discarded by technicians on his acting jobs.

In autumn 2006 he bought his first film camera, a 1980’s Russian point-and-shoot (a cult Lomo LCA) using some very expired color film they were throwing out of the loca...