Oliver Farshi

Photographer

Biography 

Oliver Farshi is a British photographer based in New York, United States, whose work focuses on people in moments of intense transition and revelation.

Farshi’s photography has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The LA Times, The Boston Globe, New York Magazine, The New Republic, People Magazine, and Forbes amongst others. His work has been exhibited in New York at the International Center Of Photography, Photoville, Baxter St and at Visa Pour l’Image. He is a graduate of the International Center of Photography’s Documentary Practice & Visual Journalism program and winner of College Photographer Of The Year’s Gold Award for Best Documentary Project.

In his photographic practice, Farshi moves in otherwise unseen spaces, documenting the deeply personal. This can be seen in A Place To Die, which follows his time at a house terminally ill people visit to take a life-ending medication, and The One Who Got Away, which connects each person portrayed through the loss of a loved one in their life.

Ultimately Oliver's photographs reveal moments of vulnerability that are familiar yet rarely seen.

Photo: A Place to Die

A very special house sits in a quiet residential neighborhood in the state of Washington, a place of reflection, grief, joy, life, and death. Here, the terminally ill come to spend their last hours – held in the presence of compassion, tenderness, and community – before drinking a medication that ends their lives. This project explores how some choose to encounter their own death in this unique space: from issues of community and access, care-giving and medical aid, to the intimate process of dying and the tenderness of grieving. While death often happens behind closed doors and in clinical settings, these photographs are an invitation to look at an inevitable aspect of life from a new perspective.