The photos, in Ollie\u2019s words, lean towards \u201cquiet symmetry\u201d. The photo Man on Bike, a particuarly pleasing shot which shows a figure stationary, seemingly pausing to take a call, is often mistaken as staged. According to Ollie, it\u2019s \u201centirely serendipitous\u201d. He continues: \u201cI was wandering through Ikoyi when I saw him stop, completely unaware of me, and everything just aligned \u2014 the colours, the posture, the stillness.\u201d<\/p>\n
The book is a collage of transportation, movement and camaraderie; when you can\u2019t rely on dropping a location pin into a map to get around, you must rely on those around you to get by. For Ollie, \u201cthat challenge became part of the process\u201d, connection wasn\u2019t just a choice to be made, but a pleasant inevitability. To be a member of the community is built up not only by the city\u2019s eccentricities, but also by its inconveniences.<\/p>\n
Ollie\u2019s photography journey began aged 16 when his art teacher, Ian Wallace, passed him a Nikon F3 to try out on a trip to Berlin. \u201cAs soon as I developed the roll I was completely hooked \u2013 it felt like magic,\u201d Ollie says. This connection to photography carried through all the way through his degree in Philosophy and Politics, where he lobbied the fine art department\u2019s head to grant him darkroom access. Now, pver ten years, his practice has been a grounding force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The photos, in Ollie\u2019s words, lean towards \u201cquiet symmetry\u201d. The photo Man on Bike, a particuarly pleasing shot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-383785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}