Country: South Africa 🇿🇦
Nic’s grounding in photojournalism has given him a direct, engaging visual style that powerfully captures action and intensity in challenging situations. He applies his extensive experience in news, conflict and sport to compelling effect in commercial and editorial spaces. Having covered several wars and six Olympic games, he also brings urgency, passion and honesty to his brand work.
He began documenting South Africa's post-apartheid transition as a student, alongside master photojournalists of the time, who helped shape his honest visual style.
After starting as staff photographer at the Cape Times, he freelanced from 1997 to 2003, then worked for the European Pressphoto Agency (EPA), where he became Chief photographer for Africa.
Career highlights include four summer Olympic games, two winter Olympics, the 2003 Liberian civil war, 2004 Togo civil war, 2005 Sudan-Darfur war, 2006 DRC crisis, three Wimbledon championships, 2010 Soccer World Cup, the Surfing World Tour, and Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.
In 2015, with Justin Scholk, he launched the Globephoto project, which teaches photography to children from different communities to help bridge South Africa’s social divide.
“I look for life’s extremes in my photography, for where intensity and meaning intersect,” says Nic. “That’s where learning starts.”
Over the past 30 years he has worked in more than 100 countries, held more than 10 exhibitions and won several international awards – including three Fujifilm SA Photographer of the Year awards. His work is part of the permanent collection at the University of South Africa Art Gallery.
He began documenting South Africa's post-apartheid transition as a student, alongside master photojournalists of the time, who helped shape his honest visual style.
After starting as staff photographer at the Cape Times, he freelanced from 1997 to 2003, then worked for the European Pressphoto Agency (EPA), where he became Chief photographer for Africa.
Career highlights include four summer Olympic games, two winter Olympics, the 2003 Liberian civil war, 2004 Togo civil war, 2005 Sudan-Darfur war, 2006 DRC crisis, three Wimbledon championships, 2010 Soccer World Cup, the Surfing World Tour, and Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.
In 2015, with Justin Scholk, he launched the Globephoto project, which teaches photography to children from different communities to help bridge South Africa’s social divide.
“I look for life’s extremes in my photography, for where intensity and meaning intersect,” says Nic. “That’s where learning starts.”
Over the past 30 years he has worked in more than 100 countries, held more than 10 exhibitions and won several international awards – including three Fujifilm SA Photographer of the Year awards. His work is part of the permanent collection at the University of South Africa Art Gallery.