Olivia K Taylor Photography

I know everyone has been going through the ringer lately but what a year I pictured myself finishing my degree, moving in to Manchester...

Well It's been a minute. I've debated starting writing on this blog again for a long time, and I'm not sure what's made me choose now as...

Whilst still at university, I focused my spare time on building up my skills and knowledge with product and food photography. I shot...

Writing is something I have always had an interest in, and a skill I've had from being young - after seeing an advertisement on social...

In order to try and showcase my work on as many platforms as possible, I have been submitting my work to online galleries. These...

During the Easter break, we organised peer review groups amongst ourselves. My group used the sessions to address any problems we saw in...

I wanted the front cover to be very minimal but still visually appealing to the public eye in order to draw enough attention to my photo...

I arranged a zoom call with my tutor, who's speciality and passion is collecting, learning about and publishing photo books. The feedback...

I decided to get out my printed images once more and start the process of visualising the layout of my photo book; pairing and arranging...

As I've always been drawn to natural lighting, I used the same reasoning whilst creating new images whilst self-isolating. Although I...

Due to the virus outbreak and the subsequent lockdown, I've been unable to create new work in my preferred area (city centre). I will...

I wanted to start the process of improving my post-production skills, and so I've started searching online for methods of skin retouching...

Whilst trying to strengthen my skills and knowledge of product photography, I collaborated with another (photography) student and we used...

As part of funding the costs for our end-of-year catalogue, we organised and conducted a bake sale on the uni campus. The day was very...

A friend needed help to make connections, in order to find female farmers for her university project. I managed to find a renowned sheep...

Over the course of several weeks, we were given 30 minute slots to have one-to-one feedback sessions with different tutors, our last...

After several fundraising events, we've now began talking about the making of the catalogue - we looked at previous years copies, for...

Considering all feedback given, I wanted my next set of images to have more abstraction and attempt to pair them with any of my current...

As I'm trying to expand my portfolio, I decided to try out a new camera whilst photographing some products. Experiencing using the Phase...

After the lecture, Ben Weaver sat with a small group of students and fave feedback on our work. Whilst seeing mine, Weaver encouraged me...