Obie OberholzerPetrus Cornelius Jacobus "Obie" Oberholzer (born 1947) is a South African photographer.

Oberholzer was born on a small farm outside Pretoria, South Africa. He studied graphic design at Stellenbosch University in the 1960s, and photographyat the Bavarian State Institute of Photography in Munich, Germany, in the early 1970s. He returned to Germany in 1979 for his master's degree in photography.

In between he worked for the Deutsche Condor Film, as a commercial photographer and as a lecturer at the Natal Technikon. He has published numerous coffee table books documenting his African travels. Read More Read Less