Ogden studied at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor before moving to New York City.

[citation needed] Eric currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, and travels frequently on assignment.

His photographs have appeared in Wired, Entertainment Weekly, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, The New Yorker, Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Fast Company, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, People, The Smithsonian, ESPN, Marie Claire, and Men's Journal, among many other publications.

Commercially, he’s collaborated with brands & agencies such as Puma, Adobe & Frame.io, Amazon, Nissan, Dick's Sporting Goods, Asics, Nike, Sotheby's, Maker's Mark, Sean John, Anomaly, Ogilvy, Saatchi & Saatchi, Vitro and TBWA/Chiat/Day, as well as television networks & movie studios including Paramount+, Showtime, Lionsgate, AMC, NBC, USA, A&E, The Discovery Channel, and among record labels, Capitol Records, Roc Nation, Island Def Jam, Atlantic Records, Sony Music, and Warner Bros Records.

He has guest lectured in New York City at the School of Visual Arts, International Center of Photography, Fashion Institute of Technology and The Cooper Union, as well as Ithaca College.