Ollie Hodgkins
BIO
Ollie Hodgkins is a Melbourne-based photographer who focuses on rural communities in Australia, exploring the postcolonial tensions that reverberate between settler communities and the landscape. He is a recent graduate of a Bachelor of Photography at Photography Studies College in Melbourne, with a major in Photojournalism. In 2018, Ollie was accepted into a workshop with World Press Photo ambassador and photobook designer Teun van der Heijden, where he worked amongst photographers such as Adam Ferguson, Ying Ang and Raphaela Rosella. In 2019, Ollie was nominated for the World Press Photo 6x6 Global Talent Program. His debut photobook The Moat, the result of a long-term project on French Island in Western Port, Victoria, received the ‘Student Commended’ prize at this year’s Australian & New Zealand Photobook Award.
EXHIBITIONS
As I Gaze: Graduate Exhibition, group show at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, 2019
VESSEL: Photobook Exhibition, group show at Hillvale Gallery, Melbourne, 2018
Keep the Fire Burning - Celebrating 5 Years of Hillvale, group show at Hillvale Gallery, Melbourne, 2018
FEATURED WORK
Interview in Australian contemporary photography magazine, Paper Journal, 2020
Feature on the Australian & New Zealand Photobook of the Year website, 2019
Feature in The British Journal of Photography article ‘On Location: Melbourne’, 2021
EDUCATION / WORKSHOPS
Bachelor of Photography: Photography Studies College, Melbourne, 2017-2019
Photobook Workshop: run by Teun van der Heijden and Sandra van der Doelen, Melbourne, 2018
Embracing Bias: Documentary Photography workshop run by Léonard Pongo at Obscura Festival of photography, Penang, Malaysia, 2018
Portraiture Workshop: run by David Schulze at Le Space Gallery, Melbourne, 2020
RECOGNITIONS
Winner, Student Commended, Australian & New Zealand Photobook Award, 2020
Nominee, World Press Photo 6x6 Global Talent Program, 2019