Antonio Olmos

Antonio Zazueta Olmos (born 1963) is a Mexican photojournalist, editorial and portrait photographer, based in London.

Olmos' first book is The Landscape of Murder (2013), photographs of the sites of murders within London's M25 orbital motorway in 2011 and 2012. He won a first place World Press Photo award in 2001 and was a finalist in the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize in 2011.

Biography Olmos was born in Mexico. He studied photojournalism at California State University, Fresno, United States.

From 1988 Olmos was a staff photographer on The Miami Herald for three years. In 1991 he went freelance, focusing on Latin American issues, basing himself in Mexico City and The Daily Telegraph; and for NGOs including ActionAid. His personal work has been published in The Guardian.

In 2013 Olmos' photograph of Sol Campbell was included in the National Portrait Gallery, London's annual exhibition of the best submissions for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize.

The Landscape of Murder Between 1 January 2011 and 31 December 2012, Olmos photographed the sites of all 210 known murders within London's M25 orbital motorway for his The Landscape of Murder project. It includes a photograph of a group of teenagers in Edmonton, lining the garden wall of the house outside which their friend Negus McLean was murdered, which was a finalist in the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize.

Sean O'Hagan, writing in The Observer, included The Landscape of Murder among his recommended photography books of the year. He said that it was "by turns melancholy and thought-provoking, it will make you see the city in a different, darker light."

Publications The Landscape of Murder. Stockport: Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2013. . With an introduction by Sean O'Hagan.

Awards 2001 – 1st place, People in the News category, World Press Photo Awards. 2011 – Finalist, Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize.