Spirited updates from spectacular 20-year-old photographer Olivia Bee

Date
29 September 2014

Olivia Bee is fantastic. We’ve been following her in a non-stalker way for a good few years now, and can report that we were in fact correct in predicting she was going to be big. What’s so great about having a look at her work after a bit of a gap is the realisation that even though she’s been doing a lot more commercial work, her Flickr is still a paean to the wild beauty of youth. Even better, before where her photographs depicted kids on the brink of puberty – clumsily exploring the world and exploring being grown ups – now her subjects (some of them we recognise from before) are now actually approaching adulthood. That includes Olivia too, and these new wild, fizzing photographs are total, unadulterated proof of that.

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Olivia Bee: Desert Roadtrip for Vans

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Olivia Bee: Untitled

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Olivia Bee: Sonshine

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Olivia Bee: Sloppy Kisses

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Olivia Bee: Paulina/Popsicle/Palms

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Olivia Bee: Magenta

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Olivia Bee: King Noodle

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Olivia Bee: The Middle of Nowhere, CA

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Liv Siddall

Liv joined It’s Nice That as an intern in 2011 and worked across online, print and events, and was latterly Features Editor before leaving in May 2015.

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