Obie Oberholzer
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Obie Oberholzer (1947-) is a South African photographer.
Born Petrus Cornelius Jacobus Oberholzer, but generally known as Obie Oberholzer, this inimitable photographer hails from a small farm outside Pretoria, South Africa where he was born in 1947. Oberholzer studied graphic design at Stellenbosch University in the late 1960s, and photography at the Bavarian State Institute of Photography in Munich, Germany in the early 1970s. He returned to Germany in 1979 for his Masters in Photography.
In between he worked for the Deutsche Condor Film, as a commercial photographer and as a lecturer at the Natal Technikon. He has published numerous (and popular) coffee table books documenting his exploits through the African interior.
Obie Oberholzer worked as Professor of Photographer in the Fine Art Department of Rhodes University, South Africa. He travels extensively producing quirky pictorial travel books. He works exclusively on medium format film and consults for a major film producer. He is a member of the German Photo Agency Bilderberg.
[edit] Published works
- Ariesfontein to Zuurfontein : A Pictorial Journey (1988)
- Southern Circle : Another Pictorial Journey (1989)
- To Hell n Gone (1991)
- Beyond Bagamoyo : A Journey from Cape to Cairo (1998)
- The Hotazel Years (2000)
- Raconteur Road : Shots into Africa (2002)
- Round the Bend: Travels Around Southern Africa (2006)
- Long Ago Way: In the Footsteps of Alphons Hustinx (2007)
