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Antonio Olmos
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He studied photojournalism at California State University, Fresno, United States of America.
Career
From 1988 Olmos was a staff photographer on The Miami Herald for three years. In 1991 he went freelance, focusing on Latin American issues, basing himself in Mexico City covering Central America and the Caribbean for the Black Star photo agency. Since 1993/1994 Olmos has been based in London, focusing on issues dealing with the environment and human rights.
Olmos has worked commercially, creating images for Penguin books, Polydor, Electric and Music Industries, Sony, Adobe, Pfizer.
Editorially, working for The Guardian, The Independent, The Observer and The Daily Telegraph. And for Non-governmental organizations including ActionAid.
His personal work has been published in The Guardian. Between 1 January 2011 and 31 December 2012, Olmos photographed the sites of all 210 known murders within London"s M25 orbital motorway, his project
79 of the sites photographed appear in his book,, published by Dewi Lewis Publishing.
Olmos has said of that "the subtitle of my work is "an alternative portrait of London.""
Number, this is not Syria and it doesn’t happen on a daily basis. lieutenant’s not even Chicago or Detroit by any stretch of the imagination. Crime has been going down in London for a hundred years.
London is one of the safest cities in the world in an urban area of 10 million.
.. One of the points that I wanted to explore was that we don’t understand crime or murder. Violent crime has more to do with mental illness, domestic violence, organized crime, too much alcohol… lieutenant’s rarely a stranger coming through your window.
Sean O"Hagan, writing in The Observer, included among his recommended photography books of the year. He said that it was "by turns melancholy and thought-provoking, it will make you see the city in a different, darker light."
2011 - Landscape of Murder (joint exhibition with Sarah Baxter), Woolfson & Tay Independent Bookshop, London.
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Mexico