Geo D. Oliver began his photographic journey in 1997, after falling in love with the life & people he met during his 1st visit to a youth hostel. "The then aspiring actor abandoned his Hollywood dreams to photograph the backpacker world & the life of hostel travellers."

On the 1st of February, 2000, Geo launched The PHOTOhype.com web site to document his travels
& to piece together his vision of the hostelling world.  Then, on the 20th of September 2003, Geo opened his 1st
photography exhibition: The Point of Travelling @ Café La Fête in Maasmechelen, Belgium.  At least 75 photographs
make up Geo's exhibition about backpackers & hostel travellers.  In January 2006, Geo launched PHOTOhype BOOKS
with his 1st limited edition book: Photographs of an Unwritten Future.  In 2007, during Geo's 10 year anniversary with
photography, HostelBookers & Geo distributed 18,000 PHOTOhype postcards in Europe via the Outrageous Bus.
So, if you ever forget the point of travelling, then this is a reminder of what it is all about. -PHOTOhype Project, 2008

Photographer: Geo D. Oliver can be contacted on his mobile phone in Europe: +353 86 059 4994  |  E-mail address: Geo@PHOTOhype.com
PHOTO: Geo & a few architecture students from  St. Lukas University in Ghent, Belgium 2003  |  Photo By: Elle Rosier, Belgium