Petrus Cornelius Jacobus "Obie" Oberholzer is a South African photographer born in 1947. Oberholzer was born on a small farm outside Pretoria, South Africa. He studied graphic design at Stellenbosch University in the late 1960s, and photography at 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.

Since 1987 he has produced 15 coffee table books on his travels and life in Africa. He has had 37 one-man exhibitions in South Africa and 11 in Europe and is a member of the German picture agency LAIF. He has worked for many international publications. His motto is: 'Life without adventure is no life at all'.