This summer, Owen Harvey had the pleasure of spending time with an amazing group of young girls practising Escaramuza in Jurupa Valley, California.
For this series, Owen aimed to create images inspired by iconic musicians such as Miles Davis, Chet Baker, and Aretha Franklin, while keeping the imagery contemporary by featuring modern technology that enables musicians to create.
Owen Harvey has always been drawn to individuals who are unashamedly themselves, unafraid to go against the grain. All Within My Skin is a collaborative documentation of two globally renowned black work tattooists: Rafel Delalande and Duncan X.
There’s a place in Mexico City where the lights are always low, the suits are always sharp, and the music never stops. Salón Los Ángeles.
Owen Harvey creates portraiture that is powerful, engaging, and honest.
While exploring Mercado de Jamaica, Mexico City’s sprawling 24-hour flower market, Owen Harvey observed a touching tradition. As teenage boys made their way to school, many stopped to buy yellow flowers. One young man explained that on March 21st, it is customary to give yellow flowers to girlfriends and close friends to celebrate the arrival of spring.
As with all his work, Owen is often drawn to the unique, to the sports on the periphery of convention. Owen captures the energy, the passion, and the camaraderie, with an emphasis on dynamism and detail, he is a wonderful narrator of the story surrounding sport.
This work started with Owen Harvey’s arrival in New York, Bronica SQ-A in hand. Owen wasn’t sure what to expect. He’d set off for America with a not-entirely-concrete plan to shoot a project on a low riders group he’d been in touch with over email.
Huck magazine have collaborated with Levi’s Performance Denim to explore how creative men are challenging outdated expectations of performance, status and identity.
‘Young Fathers’ sees Owen Harvey creating a sensitive series of portraits that explore an affectionate role more often depicted as a mother’s territory
Skinheads are frequently associated with far-right political groups—and yet the subculture’s roots champion the working class, mod fashion, and Jamaican music.
The pictures for 'Mod UK' have been taken over the last five years in locations across the UK, including London, Margate, Liverpool and Brighton and were exhibited at the Subculture Archives in Carnaby Street.
Here is the deepest secret nobody knows. (Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
The sun is beating relentlessly on my back as I turn on to West 4th. I hear raised voices, laughter and the pounding of rubber bouncing repetitively on the baked, scuffed concrete.
Inspired by his series 'Young Fathers', Samsung asked Owen to collaborate on a project exploring the notion of family for International Day of Families.
Iconic clothing brand Woolrich and Highsnobiety invited Owen Harvey to document their latest vintage shopping guide
A rope-maker, globe-painter and sculpture...
In 2019, Owen Harvey arrived in the seaside town of Leigh-on-Sea.
It’s a day that will go down in history. The day that Charles III was crowned King. Owen Harvey was commissioned to cover the celebrations for The Telegraph.
Owen Harvey takes us inside Spanish schools for young matadors after winning the RPS/Guardian Joan Wakelin bursary.
Campaign imagery shot by Owen Harvey for the Department of England. The campaign aims to break the stereotype of the 'perfect' foster carer, showing that anyone can provide a loving home.