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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Friday
Sep022011

Zambia Safari

DateFriday, September 2, 2011 at 08:58AM

A friend , James Howlett, working in Myanmar, Burma emailed me an image used by Malaysia Airlines which I shot in Zambia by the Zambezi River.

The shoot was organised on the banks of the Lower Zambezi, Zambia.

Situated within the Game Management Area (Hunting concession areas protected and managed by the villages that occupy the area) that buffers the western border of the Lower Zambesi National Park. This camp site is not an offical camp site, and was situated within the grounds of Mtondo Lodge,  about 1 km from the lodge.

The trees surrounding the camp, and under which the tents were placed, are Albida Accacia, for which elephant have a passion, gorging themselves on the pods, thus the area is perfect for large elephant group sightings.

 Mtondo lodge and thus this transient camp, are about 100 miles from Lusaka, travelling due south to the Zambia/Zimbabwe border post of Chirundu, and turing directly East just before the border, following the Zambezi river toward and across the Kafue River which enters it at the Gwabi pontoon.

 On a map, Lower Zambezi National Park and the GMA are opposite the Zimbabwean Mana Pools National Park.

 Go to www.voyagerszambia.com then to "destinations", "National Parks" and "Lower Zambezi" for more information on this magnificent area.

"Models" were sourced from friends living in Zambia, Leslie Cook, her family and James Howlett.


 Thanks to Voyagers for the transport, Leslie and James, the Zambian Victorian Walking Safari and all their staff. 

Shot on analog 6x7 Pentax, colour negative. There is no electricity, phones, hospitals or running water in most of Zambia. Lusaka is over 4 hours by road, a long, hot bumpy ride.