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Olivia E. Bartlett

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24/10/2025

Short-Eared Owl • Filey, January 2025

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I love owls, I think they’re my favourite bird. They were my grandmothers favourite bird as well…

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Three years later and I’m still grieving the loss of my grandma. Still waking up hoping she’s still here and it’s just one big nightmare I can’t wake up from. A part of me died the day I found out she passed away, a part that I’ll never get back.

I’m not the same person I was when she was alive and I hate myself because of it as I wonder if she’ll still recognise me, the overwhelming fear that she won’t is unbearable. I have my photography as a reminder because she loved my photos but this time of year it’s just a painful reminder.

Though the part that hurts the most is the guilt that I feel. The guilt of not spending more time with her, being angry with her when she died, not being at home when she passed.

Memory and time don’t go hand in hand. I can’t remember what she looks like apart from a vague idea. I don’t remember what she sounds like.

Parts of me wants to stop grieving because then I can continue on with my life, not cry at every nursing home I see, I can go back to taking photos in autumn/winter. But the other parts of me don’t because it’s the only thing I have left of her.

17/10/2025

🎄🐈‍⬛Charity Christmas Prints🐈‍⬛ 🎄

This Christmas season I’ve put together a collection of images that are available for prints.

I’m happy to share my first charity print collection!! These images were taken over the course of the past two years by me.

🎁Prints Available:

Colour Photos:
- Two Red Kites
- Comical Stag
- Irritated Stag
- Red Squirrel, Hide and Seek
- Cormorant
- Curious Robin
- Red Squirrel, My Peanut

Black and White Photos:
- Great Spotted Woodpecker
- White Stag
- Cormorant Wing
- Red Kite
- Flat Swallow Portrait
- Pointy Swallow Portrait
- Gannet Pair
- Razorbill
- Short-Eared Owl
- Puffin
- Swallow Chicks
- Old Goat

📏Sizes:
4x5” or 5x4”
8x10” or 10x8”
- Printed on Fuji Crystal Archive Gloss Photo Paper

🐈‍⬛ Supporting a local charity - Filey Cat Rescue

25% of profits will be donated to Filey Cat Rescue! 🐈🤍 A few months ago me and my partner fostered a cat called Barnaby who has FIV and he’s been a wonderful addition to the family. Filey Cat Rescue focus on rescuing, rehabilitating and re-homing cats in need across North and East Yorkshire. At the moment they are closed to public as they took in cats and one of them tested positive for Panleukopenia, a contagious virus, for which there is no cure for.

💷 Pricing:
- £10 for 5x4/4x5
- £20 for 8x10/10x8
+ P&P

💳 How to order:
Payment options:
- PayPal or Bank Transfer
- message or email to order or for details

🎅 Spreading festive cheer while supporting a local and personal charity, the purrfect Christmas combo! ❤️💚

23/07/2025

‘How the Earth Held Me‘ Skomer Island, Wales , July 2025.

How the Earth Held Me is a photographic exploration of trauma, silence, and recovery. Rooted in personal experience, the series uses landscapes and seascapes to reflect the inner aftermath of sexual assault. In vast, empty spaces such as shorelines, open skies, foggy trails, the images hold the loneliness of survival, but also the quiet strength of moving forward. Nature becomes both witness and companion. This work is not about what happened, but about what followed: the numbness, the stillness, and the slow return to self. It is about being held, not by people, but by earth, wind, light, and time.

This is a new and ongoing photographic series which explores the aftermath of sexual assault and the quiet, often invisible process of recovery. Through landscapes and seascapes, I revisit the loneliness, disconnection, and silence that followed being r***d. The coast holds complicated weight in this work. The person who assaulted me lived by the sea, a place that once felt threatening, empty, and haunted. But now, I return to the same kind of place with someone new who also lives on the coast. He is kind, grounding, and makes me feel safe. With him, everything is gentle and everything is my choice. This series is shaped by those contrasts, between fear and safety, isolation and connection, trauma and trust. Nature becomes both a witness and a container for all of it. These images are not about what happened, but about what followed. Stillness. Distance. Survival. And eventually, the slow, surprising shape of healing.

08/06/2025

Some highlights from Stage Two 🚴🏻‍♀️🚴🏻‍♀️

roadcycling

06/06/2025

Tour of Britain Stage Two - Hartlepool to Saltburn

Manage to pry myself away from packing from my move down to Scarborough

roadcycling

31/05/2025

Closing one chapter, ready for the next.

After three intense, challenging, and transformative years, I’m proud to have finished my degree which was wrapped up into a breathtaking degree show.

There were moments I doubted myself, moments I wanted to give up, and moments I never thought I’d reach this point but somehow I did and I’m proud of the work, the learning, and the resilience it’s taken to reach this point. Along the way, I even received an ADHD diagnosis that helped me better understand how I work, think, and navigate the world (and honestly, why some parts of this journey felt so overwhelming at times).

To the entire staff, lecturers, and technicians: thank you for your knowledge, your guidance, and your dedication. You’ve shaped not just my work, but the way I see the world as a photographer.

It’s a bittersweet feeling to leave this chapter behind (even though it’s the same uni with some of the same people), but I’m excited to continue growing as I head into a Master’s degree.

Now onto graduation 🎓

16/05/2025

“Once Familiar” . Diptych from my final major project

My final major project, You Cannot Eat Money, focuses on climate change and the effects this will have on wildlife. On the wildlife side I focused on British wildlife you see day to day but created fine art portraits of the wildlife.

On the cameraless side, I used a technique called Cliché-Verre, where I focused on the effects of climate change whether this is changes in the weather, their habitat or the causes such as oil pollution, deforestation and over fishing.

This image, Once Familiar, focuses on peat extraction, which is used for both fuel and horticulture though in order to do this you need to drain the the peat lands and extra the vegetation. This causes damage to the vital ecosystems as the store carbon and support plant and animal life. Even though peat lands can be restored they are often of lower ecological quality as it originally was.

14/05/2025

“Echo Pairs” . Diptych from my final major project

My final major project, You Cannot Eat Money, focuses on climate change and the effects this will have on wildlife. On the wildlife side I focused on British wildlife you see day to day but created fine art portraits of the wildlife.

On the cameraless side, I used a technique called Cliché-Verre, where I focused on the effects of climate change whether this is changes in the weather, their habitat or the causes such as oil pollution, deforestation and over fishing.

This image, Echo Pairs, focuses on the the hotter and drier British weather as jackdaws can be seen in almost every British habitat from costal, urban to costal areas.

10/05/2025

“Submergence” . Cameraless Photography from my FMP

03/05/2025

Something a bit different… & something I might potentially explore more (colour or double/multiple exposure… that’s the question 👀)

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Little Grebe • Canon R7

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11/04/2025

Ended up looking like a face…

08/04/2025

Finally getting round to posting some of my cameraless work from my FMP

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