Edward Olive
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The Factory Lucero
Art photo studio in Madrid Spain.
email: edwardolive@hotmail.com
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Edward Olive is a professional fine art & international destination wedding photographer based out of Madrid Spain.
Edward Olive es un fotógrafo profesional especializado en fotografía artistica y fotos de boda residente en Madrid España.
Edward Olive – fine art photographer & international destination wedding photographer
Photographe de mariageMadrid Espagne. Hoochzeitsfotograf Spanien.
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edwardolive@hotmail.com
Photography awards
2026 The Photography Foundation Awards – Wedding Photography – Shortlist
2026 Top Photo Awards – Furry Friends Photography Competition – Top 20 and Top 50 Awards
2026 Inspiration Photographers – Best Portrait Awards 46 – Honourable Mention
2026 ViewBug - Expert Merit Award - Extreme Weather Photo Contest
2026 Top Photo Awards – Featured Photo January 2026
2026 Photocrowd - Concerts in Black and White - Judges' 5th Place Overall, 1 Judge Highly Commended Award, 1 Judge Commended Award, 1 Judge Merit Award,
2026 Dodho - Fine Art Awards - Finalist
2026 Teravarna 12th Portrait - Finalist
2026 Ten Moir Gallery – Water Competition – Finalist
2026 11th 35 Awards – Male studio Portrait Category – Top 4% Award
2026 Photocrowd – Urban Streets After Dark Contest – Two Judge Merit Awards
2026 Top Photo Awards - Street Life in Color Photo Contest - Expert Choice Award
2026 Inspiration Photographers - Portrait Awards (Collection 45) - Awarded Photo and Honourable Mention
2026 Fusion Art’s 9th Annual “Urban Landscapes” International Exhibition - 3rd Place
2026 Monochrome Awards - Professional Portrait - Honourable Mention
2025 Monte-Carlo Photo Contest - Special Mention of the Jury - Glamour & Beauty
2025 Photocrowd Fashion" photography competition 8th Place and 3 "Expert Highly Commended"
2025 Photocrowd "Ageing and the Elderly" Photography Competition - 6 Expert Commendations
2025 Chromatic Awards - Fashion & Beauty - Honourable Mention
2025 Chromatic Awards - People - Honourable Mention
2025 Top Photo Awards – Featured Photo December 2025
2025 Photocrowd – “Summer Light” Contest – Expert Commended
2025 Art Room Gallery "Grey" Exhibition - Double Honourable Mention
2025 Photora Awards 2025 - Nine-Time Finalist - Categories: Portrait & Black and White, Fine Art, Abstract & Experimental, Macro & Open Theme
2025 Photocrowd – Various awards
2025 Union of Light (UOL) World Photography Contest - Shortlist Black and White category
2025 MyWed - Nominated among the Top 100 Portrait Photographers in the World
2025 MyWed - Nominated among the Top 100 Wedding Photographers in Spain
2025 Ten Moir Gallery - Color Void Competition - Honourable Mention
2025 FAME FRAME Gallery - Faces of Humanity - Honourable Mention
2025 ViewBug - People's Choice Award in The People With Animals Photo Contest
2025 1st "Iulia Traducta" International Photography Competition - Honourable Mention
2025 Neutral Density ND Awards - Honourable Mention
2025 Top Photo Awards – “Expert Choice” Award in Family Lifestyle 2025
2025 Top Photo Awards – Top50 in Family Lifestyle 2025
2025 Top Photo Awards – Photo of the Day November 2025
2025 Color Awards – Finalist
2025 MyWed - Nominated Among the Top 5 Portrait Photographers in Spain
2025 Top Photo Awards – Featured Photo October 2025
2025 Viewbug Competition "In Good Hands" – Finalist
2022 Photocrowd – Various Awards
2016 Camera Comparison Review - Top Five Photo Contest - Winner
2014 The New Camera Best Portrait Image and Best Wedding Image
2013 Viewbug - Various awards in fine art, portrait and nude photography
2012 Winner of The New Camera Still Life Photo Contest
2012 Winner of The New Camera People & Portrait Photo Contest
2012 7th Annual Black & White Spider Awards – nominee in the category professional nude
2012 The Darkroom Gallery - The Human form – Honorable mention
2011 Global Photo Awards
Advertising Photography 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence
Advertising Photography 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction
Fashion Photography 2011 Judges Choice - Honorable Mention
Still Life Photography 2011 Judges Choice - Honorable Mention
2011 The New Camera Red Photo Contest Featured Image
2011 5th Annual Photography Masters Cup Nominee in the Professional category: Nude
2011 TeraBella Media photography contest “What Happens at Night” Merit Winner
2011 First Prize in Wedding Photography and Second Prize in Portrait Photography in The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards WPGA August Contest/Pollux Awards
2011 The 2010 Project Photography Competition Runner up in the Still Life Things category and finalist in the Portraiture category
2011 International Photography Awards 2nd place in Fine Art - Nudes for the winning entry "Private Collection"
2011 International Photography Awards Honorable Mention in People : Wedding category for the winning entry “Young lady at wedding"
2011 International Photography Awards Honorable Mention in the Pets category for the winning entry “Le chat film noir"
2011 The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards May Contest Pollux Awards Portfolio Section - Professional Photographers Figure and Nude: 1st Prize
2011 The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards 2nd Edition of the Black & White Competition Second Prize & Special Mention of the Jury in the category Nude & Figure.
2011 Chasing The Light Juried Photography Pet photography Who’s your best friend? Competition Runner Up
2011 Nominated Prix de Paris Px3 Official Selection in the categories Portraiture/Wedding, Portraiture/Personality, Portraiture/Children, Press/People/Personality, Fine Art/Nudes, Nature, Advertising/Book Cover, Advertising/Annual Reports
2011 Prix de Paris Px3 People's Choice First Prize in the category Advertising/Annual Reports
2011 Prix de Paris Px3 Silver award in the category Advertising
2011 Prix de Paris Px3 Silver award in the category Nature
2011 Prix de Paris Px3 Honourable mention in the category Fine art nude
"PX3 is Europe's biggest and most prestigious photography competition" CamerArts Magazine
2011 2nd Prize and 3rd Prize in The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards April Pollux Awards Contest in the category Figure and Nude
2011 Honorable Mention in The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards Best Shot Competition
2011 3rd place winner in the ephotoawards.com art photography competition “Color Awards 2011”
2011 Special Mention of the Juror in The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards (WPGA) The Beauty Around Us Contest
2011 Gold Award In the The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards (WPGA) Portrait & People 2011
2011 Runner Up in the Chasing the light - Landscapes – Beyond The Mundane Photo Competition with his picture "Summer evening 1"
2011 Featured image of thenewcamera.com photo contest “Your best shot”2010 winner of the telegraph.co.uk The Daily Telegraph Photo competition: Forgotten
2010 Third place finalist in the photography competition V Concurso fotográfico FOTO DNG 2010 magazine with the picture “Young lady goes through door”.
2010 - First prize in the WPGA 2010 World Photography Gala Awards / The Pollux Awards - professional wedding category
2010 - Finalist in the WPGA 2010 World Photography Gala Awards / The Pollux Awards in the Professional Photographers categories: Children, Figure & nude, Macro & Micro, Still Life, Wedding,
2010 - HONORABLE MENTION WINNER OF PX3, Prix de la Photographie Paris in the category Fine Art/Nudes for the entry entitled, " ^ "
2010 nominated for the Premios Gràffica 2010
“The work of Edward is an important evolution in social reportage photography. To see weddings from a cinematic point of view, to try to transmit the different atmospheres and their attributes, as well as the characters of those attending is a declaration of intentions.
To see where no-one sees, to observe what the rest of us don’t see or to see it in a different way.”
2010 1st prize as Fantasy Photographer of the Year by the Global Photo Awards
1st Place - Fantasy Outstanding Achievement award and the title of Fantasy Photographer of the Year is given to the photographer whose single image is judged to be the most striking photo entered.
2010 Finalist and Gold Honorable Mention in The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards - The Dominant Colour Contest with the picture "Young Lady goes thru door".
2010 Finalist and Bronze honorable mention in The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards - Urban & country landscape contest with his “Hotel swimming pool”
2010 International Photography Awards.
3rd place Advertising: Book Cover pro category with the cover for Italian novel by Lucia Tilde Ingrosso – “Io so tutto di lei".
Honorable Mention in Fine Art - Nudes category for the winning entry "Private collection"Honorable Mention in Fine Art - Still Life category for the winning entry "Light on tables"
Honorable Mention in People - Other category for the winning entry "People -
Honorable Mention in Nature - Flowers category for the winning entry "Poppies"
Honorable Mention in People - Lifestyle category for the winning entry "Winter surfer"
Honorable Mention in Travel / Tourism category for the winning entry "Man orders another beer"
Honorable Mention in Advertising - Annual Report category for the winning entry "GFMS Annual Platinum Survey 2010"
2010 Selection of the Hasselblad Masters in the category Beauty & fashion with a series of fine art analog erotica
2010 - Fourth Place Award in the ARTROM Gallery, Rome, Italy’s TOPTEN Split Second Impulse International Photography Competition.
2010 - Telegraph.co.uk Daily Telegraph Photo competition: Sunshine was won by Edward Olive with his picture of poppies in Tuscany entitled “Composition in reds and browns” taken from his book of flower photography entitled “Seasons” edited by Citypulse in Santiago de Chile
2009 - One of ten finalists in the Wedding Social category of the Hasselblad Masters Competition. The Hasselblad Masters Award is the most prestigious awards in the industry.
2009 – First prize of the Jury of PHE PHotoEspaña in their competition "Otoño al aire libre"
2009 - Honorable Mention in People - Wedding category for the winning entry "Real wedding photos."
2008 - First prize in the analog photography competition “Mi mejor positivado” de La Fotografía / Kodak Spain
Exhibitions
2026 Curatone Art - juried online art exhibition - "Light and Dark"
2026 Decagon Gallery - selected artist in collective juried exhibition and accompanying catalog: "Black and White"
2026 Colours 2 - Carlotta Gallery – collective virtual gallery exhibition
2026 City Lights - Carlotta Gallery – collective virtual gallery exhibition
2012 The Human form - The Darkroom Gallery, Vermont USA collective exhibition
2011 Collective art photography exhibition Third edition of Fotox1000, the biggest collective photo exhibition in FotoGrafia 42, the International Festival of Photography of Rome 2011
2011 Collective contemporary photography exhibition “Shut up and shoot” at the Black Box Gallery in Portland, Oregon USA.
2011 Kid Stuff collective exhibition of child portraits and photojournalism in the 1650 Gallery in Los Angeles California USA.
2010 - III EXPO ESREC "El agua despertando a la primavera" in the nature museum Valle del Alberche, el Barraco Ávila Spain – Collective exhibition – nature and landscape photography
2010- FOTOX1000 II Futurspectives Rome Italy Collective exhibition – fine art photography
2010 - Citypulse por Chile Citypulse for Chile - Galería Moro - Santiago de Chile – Collective exhibition – fine art photography
2009 - Hasselblad Masters 2009 – Copenhagen, London, New York, Hong Kong,– Collective exhibition – wedding photography
2009 - Citypulse Stop making sense (lomography) - Galería Moro - Santiago de Chile – Collective exhibition – lomographic photography
2009 - Citypulse Biosphere Biosfera - Galería Moro - Santiago de Chile – Collective exhibition – urban photography
2009 - Photoespaña PHE “El agua de Madrid” – Madrid - Collective exhibition – fine art photography
2008 - “Rioja en los Sexto Sentidos” – Bodegas Franco Españolas – La Rioja - Collective exhibition – social photography
Publications featuring Edward Olive's pictures
2026 El Mundo (Spanish newspaper)
2025 20 Minutos (Spanish newspaper)
2025 YoDona (women’s magazine from Spanish newspaper El Mundo)
2025 Charity Calendar – Por dos Pulgares de Nada
2025 Litmind (Photographers, Models and Makeup Artists Web/ Social Networks) – Featured Photo
2025 Colors Book by Dodho Magazine
2024 Boom Art Community – Photographic reportage - El Lado Oscuro Enay Ferrer
2018 Elle à Table
2017 Juxtapoz Magazine
2017 Lintern@ote
2017 Expansión (Spanish newspaper)
2017 The Sun (UK newspaper)
2016 National Review (US Magazine)
2016 Camera Comparison Review - Photography magazine - Article "5 Tips For Composing a Perfect Portrait by Edward Olive"
2015 Men's Health (magazine for men)
2015 Tribuna Sanitaria (nursing magazine from Spain)
2015 My San Antonio (news magazine)
2015 Zankyou Magazine (wedding magazine from Columbia)
2015 Pianeta Donna (women’s magazine from Italy)
Exame (Brazilian news magazine)
Compromiso RSE (Spanish corporate magazine)
2014 About.com Style Weddings
2014 The Huffington Post (newspaper)
2014 Cosmo Girl! (Hong Kong) (teenage magazine)
2014 Unquote Magazine
2013 The Huffington Post (newspaper)
2013 World Wedding Traditions (bridal magazine)
2012 Paragraph Me (magazine of short stories)
2012 El Mundo Magazine (Spanish newspaper's Sunday magazine)
2012 The photography book "El desnudo artístico en blanco y negro" (The artistic nude in black & white) published by Artual Ediciones
2012 HESO Magazine (photography & cinema review)
2012 Life is a Bed of Roses - The 2010 project with Macmillan Cancer Support - foreword by Tony Benn
2009-2011 CFYE (photography and street art magazine)
2011 DOF (photography magazine)
2011 Anormalmag (photography & visual arts magazine from Chile)
2011 IPA Lucie Foundation Annual book
A collection of fine art photography by various international artists published by International Photography Awards
2011 Hyde Park Photography Magazine (photography magazine)
2011 Citypulse Fine art photography book City of women
2011 UNLIMITED GRAIN / PORTRAITS/ from THIAPS, The International Analogue Photographic Society, fine art portrait photography book
2011 Year-Book UNLIMITED GRAIN 2011 by THIAPS also known as "Film is not dead it just smells funny"
2011 Snapixel Magazine
2011 Le Negatif Mag
2010 “Urban & country landscape” – a collection of fine art photography by various international artists published by The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards
2010 IPA Lucie FpindationAnnual book - a collection of fine art photography by various international artists published by International Photography Awards
2010 – Strongbox magazine (photography, art, graffiti culture, music, film quarterly US review)
2010 - Carne Visual Arts Magazine
2010 Aire Libre (Spanish travel magazine)
2010 YoDona (women’s magazine from Spanish newspaper El Mundo)
2010 Outside magazine
2010 - The book “Everyman’s Marx” by Roger Gatham & Jake Davis
2010 - GFMS Annual Gold Survey & Annual Platinum Survey
2010 – Citypulse (fine art photography magazines)
2009 – Oui magazine (French bridal magazine)
2009 - La Fotografía Digital y Actual – Spanish photography magazine – 5 page feature – fine art erotica
2008 – La Fotografía Social – Spanish photography magazine – 5 page feature – wedding photography
2006-7 – various Spanish music, rap, hiphop & urban culture magazines including Serie B, Hip Hop Nation & Hipflow.
2006-7 Urban Fit (Spanish sports magazine)
2007 - Gear Patrol (men's magazine)
Television programs featuring Edward Olive's pictures
2010-2008 Explorers (Spanish TV travel program - Canal Nou & Punt 2)
Showcase
- JoinedAugust 2006
- OccupationFotografos de boda, fotografos de boda, fotos de boda, madrid barcelona valencia españa - fotos de boda - wedding photographers madrid spain actor locutor voice-over
- HometownMadrid Spain España
- Current cityMadrid
- CountrySpain
- Emailedwardolive@hotmail.com
- Websitehttp://www.edwardolive.eu/
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Testimonials
Thank you, just thank you for what you are doing .. Your photos are just great! .. I can see it, feel it, enjoy it .. and the best is I can do it whenever I want :) Wielkie dzięki . Michał
Edward is one of the most talented -- and versatile -- photographers I've found here on Flickr. It is always a pleasure to wander through his latest shots.
A finer photographer/artist you will struggle to find. A man with true vision and an eye for the moment, capturing people and shapes in light like never seen before. Thank you Edward for allowing us a peep through your incredible eyes.
Dear Edward, I am 50, never been married, do not even wish to ever be married ... But, If I was forced to... as a consolation I wish you to be the Photographer... :) Your work is a Monument! with kind regards, Carlos
Tu galería es Espectacular...
his pictures are mini-marvelous miracles. he blows my mind. so beautiful and magical. he brings out the essence in the mundane and heightens the spectacular. he rocks. i still can not get enough of his photos his eye is masterful. if i were a female i would make him my other. he is absolute
Every piece of his work displays intricate and beauty of the basics of life- A master of our time.
For sure one of the most stubbornly talented guys I know on flickr. Edward, you'll be a star and you already know it! ;)
I absolutely adore and love Edward's work - so original, so creative, so beautiful, so inspiring. I think that every wedding should be portrayed on film exactly the way Edward does it. Definitely one of the best, if not the best photostream on flickr for me.
enorme Edward, altísima calidad en sus fotos una de mis mayores inspiraciones en cuanto a galerias fotograficas estilo increible, grandes resultados alguien de quien aprender, me encantaria verlo trabajar
Somos contacto desde hace tiempo, y cada vez me ha ido gustando mas tu estilo tan particular y tus fotografías. Acabo de leer tu entrevista y... Crack, Enhorabuena!
Insanely talented
Me ha impresionado su idea de la fotografía, tan particular, con tanta personalidad. Me ha maravillado francamente. Es Vd un artistazo.
hats off with respect
the inspiration for the next of my photography journey...... Edward Olive genius ... respect!!!
Edward is testament to what creativity can do when allowed to be less than perfection as defined in our increasingly binary/diital age. His photos are self evidently the work of non-mechanical mind and we are all the richer for his unwillingness to embrace the digital age. I am myself a very guilty one of many, Edwa… Read more
Edward is testament to what creativity can do when allowed to be less than perfection as defined in our increasingly binary/diital age. His photos are self evidently the work of non-mechanical mind and we are all the richer for his unwillingness to embrace the digital age. I am myself a very guilty one of many, Edward remains defiant. Enjoy his photos and be amazed. Sean
Read lessOne of the great photographers of today... Such a unique and wonderful amalgamation of photographs, psychedelia, and "wordature". Can you be my mentor, Edward?
cool photos! drop on my page :D write a comment as well. thank you very much :)
A stream of constant inspiration. Edward Olive's photography is one of my favorites here on Flickr.
The only stream I make a point of visiting every day without fail - perhaps that says it all. I would give my right arm to spend a day with you.
Absolutely, without a doubt, my favorite Flickr photographer.
edwardolive is pure magic... nothing more to say. best regards my friend
I appreciate your work, and your words (in your profile and in various articles) as it reminds me that I'm not crazy for believing what I believe, and choosing a life built in artistic obscurity. If I have to sit behind a desk 40 hours a week again, ever, I've given up again.
Edward is a true inspiration. His unique vision for capturing the real and honest moments that he encounters in his weddings and everyday life never fail to evoke a feeling. His photo stream inspires me to try harder and to also follow your own artistic vision rather than conform to what most of society want, expec… Read more
Edward is a true inspiration. His unique vision for capturing the real and honest moments that he encounters in his weddings and everyday life never fail to evoke a feeling. His photo stream inspires me to try harder and to also follow your own artistic vision rather than conform to what most of society want, expect and tell you is good. I admire the way he produces such amazing works of art in what can be such a shallow minded profession (wedding photography). I hope to see his work displayed in a gallery some time soon, he truly deserves it.
Read lessI see your work as the most unaccountable thing of sorts... always buzzing, humming, soaring, roaring, diving, and then buried in thoughts...I wonder why and guess its just something that you are very good at and Edward you are truely an artist with great passion.......
...absolutely stunning work my friend...
Fascinated by this work, artistic, impressive and giving creative thinking, yes, something called ART
In a nutshell, Ed is a modern day master of photography with an astonishing eye for beauty, from hip, sexy reportage through to soothing, psychedelic, ambient-blad. His work opened my eyes to stills photography even more than the 20th century greats I adore. Start at page one of his stream and work forward through ti… Read more
In a nutshell, Ed is a modern day master of photography with an astonishing eye for beauty, from hip, sexy reportage through to soothing, psychedelic, ambient-blad. His work opened my eyes to stills photography even more than the 20th century greats I adore. Start at page one of his stream and work forward through time, it is a dazzling journey, effortlessly original and the epitome of cool style, he photographs with the freshness and vision of a 60s European new wave cinematographer. Should lead a globe-trotting Testino lifestyle but is, for now, a cult underground superhero. Stick at it man !
Read lessmaker. . . creator. few photographers deserve either appellation. not so edward, who merits both: he is the consummate visual craftsman and his site an homage to the highest, most transcendent of artistic impulses.
... peter frampton could make his guitar talk, but edward olive can make his cameras tell stories! ... and each image has so much to say ... and that is what edward olive is, a genius storyteller ... woke up this morning with a hasselblad in my hand ... must have been a dream i don't believe where i've been ... co… Read more
... peter frampton could make his guitar talk, but edward olive can make his cameras tell stories! ... and each image has so much to say ... and that is what edward olive is, a genius storyteller ... woke up this morning with a hasselblad in my hand ... must have been a dream i don't believe where i've been ... come on eddie, you wanna do it again? ... do you, do you, do you feel like we do? ... please do it again.
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