Oliver Abraham, born in Cologne in 1972, studied from 2001 to 2004 at the School for Photography„Fotografie am Schiffbauerdamm“ in Berlin under Prof. Arno Fischer. He works with an 8 x 10 inch large format camera and since 2004 has been photographing contemporary artists, musicians and actors. After photographing Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, he started a project photographing whistleblowers, activists, and journalists- ‚Freedom of Speech’- which was shown in Cologne at Galerie Julian Sander and at the Paris Photo at the Grand Palais.