Olivia Arthur (London, UK, 1981). After obtaining his degree in mathematics from the University of Oxford, Olivia Arthur studied photojournalism at the London College of Printing in 2003. That same year, he moved to Delhi to work as a freelance photographer. During her stay in Italy in 2006, she began working on the project The Middle Distance, a work on the life of the young set in the border between Europe and Asia and has exhibited at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Triennale Milan, the Art Museum in Shanghai and the Shiodomeitalia Creative Center in Tokyo. In 2007, she received the Inge Morath Magnum Foundation Award and in 2008 joined Magnum Photos. It was then that he started a new project entitled Beyond the Veil in Tehran, Isfahan and the Caspian Sea, Iranian portraying women in situations that break with Western stereotypes about them. In 2008 she won the PHotoEspaña OjodePez Award for Human Values and developed a solo show at PHotoEspaña 2009. Among other sum awards the Vic Odden of the Royal Photographic Society (2010) and the Jean-Luc Ladardère Foundation (2008). In 2015 she published the photo book Stranger on the sinking of DARA near Dubai.
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