Tag: Michael “Nick” Nichols

  • The Photographers on Photography

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    Link: Chances are if you walked past a National Geographic photographer on the street, you wouldn’t know it—and that’s how they like it. As photographer and Editor at Large Michael “Nick” Nichols puts it, “I want people to remember the pictures, not my name or what I look like.” But as part of our 125th…

  • Shortly after Murdoch buys National Geographic, he fires its award-winning journalists / Boing Boing

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    Link: Included in the mass-firings are photo editor Sherry L. Brukbache, picture editor Nancy Lee Ott, photographer Michael “Nick” Nichols, and a designer described by colleagues as “the best designer on staff.” At least 180 staffers were fired in all, the largest layoff’s in the magazine’s 127 year history.

  • How Do You Photograph Lions? Be as Boring as Possible. – The New York Times

    How Do You Photograph Lions? Be as Boring as Possible. – The New York Times

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    How Do You Photograph Wild Lions? Be as Boring as Possible. Michael “Nick” Nichols thinks photography is more interesting when you’re driven to do something. Like spending months in the wild photographing gorillas, elephants and lions. via Lens Blog: https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/how-to-photograph-wildlife-nichols/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body&_r=0 Michael “Nick” Nichols has been photographing wildlife for four decades, mostly for National Geographic. Now,…

  • Michael Nichols wins 4th annual National Geographic Photographer’s Photographer Award

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    Link: Michael Nichols wins 4th annual National Geographic Photographer’s Photographer Award – The Photo Society Over the years this photographer realized that the natural world he was adventuring in was fragile and disappearing, so he turned his photography into a tool for conservation, and became successful beyond his wildest imagination. While we all hope that…

  • Interview with Michael “Nick” Nichols

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    Link: burn magazine Easily by the time I get to an assignment I’m completely exhausted because of the money I had to raise, all the gear I had to put together, all the…this last one’s 50 boxes going to Tanzania, two years of fundraising, you know, literally almost 10 years of talking about lions, and…

  • Interview with Michael “Nick” Nichols

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    Michael “Nick” Nichols – Conversation [slidepress gallery=’michaelnicknichols_interview’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls play this essay   David Alan Harvey: Now the thing is that you were… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/02/interview-with-michael-nick-nichols/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+burnmag+%28burn+magazine%29 I can’t justify what I do if I’m not reaching the planet. I gotta have a huge audience because my…