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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Tuesday
Feb142012

Wolff Olins

DateTuesday, February 14, 2012 at 09:19AM



Through December and january I've been working on a location shoot with Wolff Olins for a telecomms company.We started with intensive model casting and location recces for the first part of the shoot in London, UK.

We used houses, commercial space and offices for the residential and office scenarios. 

For the second half of the shoot we flew to Cape Town, sunny South Africa! More castings and recces, and a further series of location shoots, interiors and exteriors, including some fab houses and beaches.

Gavin Schneide Productions handled the SA side, and LPA, the winter UK side. I've included some "on the spot" outtakes until the final print images have been signed off....

Shoreditch Studios "The Zone".

Location house in London SW2

Ellie Tobin, har and m/up, having a calm moment before the storm!

Back at the Zone, Shoreditch.

Cape Town, above Camps Bay,

Our location van in Kloof Street, Cape Town

Ellie Tobin and Natasha Freeman (stylist exraordinaire!)

Alec Mendelssohn, our "fixer" in CT on Clifton beach

Casey Crafford, my expert assistant on Clifton Beach.
Tomasso from Milan, with friends on their last day, also on our last day, watching the summer sun go down on Clifton Beach.
Notable list of crew:
UK, Ellie Tobin HMUP, Natasha Freeman Stylist, assisted by Ruth Ley.
Locations: JJ Locations, Shoot Factory.
My Digital Assistants, Nicola and Kelly at Republik Agency.
Production, Lauren Jarmey at LPA, assisted by Suzie Howell and Anna Gormley.
SA, Gavin and Maxine At GS Productions.
Fixer, Alec Mendelssohn, Digi assist, Casey Crafford.
Caroline Olavarrieta, Stylist SA.
We all stayed at the Protea Victoria Junction, Cape Town, near the Waterfront- which was a fab hotel!