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 anniversary special issue this October, we wanted to turn the camera around on Nick and his fellow photographers.
Tag: Michael “Nick” Nichols
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The Photographers on Photography
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Shortly after Murdoch buys National Geographic, he fires its award-winning journalists / Boing Boing
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.
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How Do You Photograph Lions? Be as Boring as Possible. – The New York Times
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.
Michael “Nick” Nichols has been photographing wildlife for four decades, mostly for National Geographic. Now, Aperture Foundation has published “A Wild Life: A Visual Biography of Photographer Michael Nichols” by Melissa Harris. Mr. Nichols spoke with James Estrin about his life with gorillas, elephants and lions
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Michael Nichols wins 4th annual National Geographic Photographer’s Photographer Award
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 our pictures can endure, or perhaps even make a difference in this world, how many of us have had our photographs convince a head of state to create thirteen national parks?
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Interview with Michael “Nick” Nichols
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 then you, of course, your pictures have to start to live up to all the hype that you’ve…not hype…whatever you’ve done
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Interview with Michael “Nick” Nichols
Michael “Nick” Nichols – Conversation
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I can’t justify what I do if I’m not reaching the planet. I gotta have a huge audience because my work is about saving the planet, you know. Its not about me, its about tigers and elephants and stuff like that. So if I didn’t have this microphone, I’d just be pissing into the wind. This is the only place on earth that I can do what I do.