About

Nick shoots people. In landscapes, homes - modest and palatial, private places, schools, hospices and hospitals.

He has a fascination with faces, the smooth unlined faces of children and the lined faces of their Grandparents.

The infinite colours of skin, hair and eyes.

Relationships, between friends, between families, between strangers, models on a shoot, are his obsession.

The body language, the mime that happens in a still image is key to telling the story.

He uses light and it’s interplay with form and texture to give the picture depth and colour.

He loves the sunlight of summer, the sparkling on water, vivid green saturation through leaves and grass.

Behind all this , quietly in the background, is the preparation, the organization, the post-production and his reputation.

He is now using these same fascinations in his moving images.

He grew up in Zambia and South Africa and has a BA in Graphic Design from Central St Martins College, London.

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Monday
Dec062010

National Trust

DateMonday, December 6, 2010 at 08:51AM

The National Trust shoot started in September 2009.

Commissioned by Graham Kerr (CD) at BMA in London and  Account Director and Producer, Claire Frankling.

Photographers Assistant, Paul Richardson.Stylist Charlie Cave.

The brief, to shoot National Trust landscapes ,buildings and people with a “dawn light”, ie with sunlight into or just out of, shot.

People to be found on recces and signed up as “models”. Age range young to senior.

First Location, Oxburgh in Norfolk, followed by The Vyne, Hampshire, Stourhead ,Wiltshire and lastly, Hidcote in North Glos.

The shoot schedule covered 6 consecutive days, except weekends.

The weather had to be sun without cloud. Incredibly, apart from the one torrential recce day, we had just that.

Shoot days commenced at 6am and finished at 7pm, followed by a drive to the next location, dinner, and prep for the next dawn start.

The locations were beautiful, the “models” all turned up, and in spite of the early start, loved every minute.

For the crew, photographer, assistant, creative team and clients, it was a great road trip, exhausting but with so many wonderful images, completely rewarding.