NICK WEST
New Town Holiday
Hong Kong Flowers
In the afternoon light the ordinary moments of the city is illuminated by a natural spotlight. Making the ordinary epic. The undaunted presence of the Hong Kong people is imprinted for posterity.
Jaimee is Lost in Belville
An ongoing series with Jaimee Gong who re-discovering her identity in the city she has made her home. Model, mother, cat breeder and businesswoman with back stories from Hawaii and Berlin.
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Marseille Masculinity
Ongoing project to celebrate the style and vibrancy of the “peacocks” of Marseille.
India Street
This work stems from two trips to India to document the India Street project, which linked the cities of Ahmedabad and Glasgow and explored themes of craft and old colonial ties.
Curated by Katy West for Creative Scotland and The British Council.
Kornel’s Muse, Vogue Poland
These portraits were shot on the back of a Nick & Chloé film depicting the rise of the Polish artist Kornel Zezula as he rises to prominence in his last year at Les Beaux Arts de Paris.
L25.2
In collaboration with artist and photographer Ilya Lipkin, we invented a fictional ad agency called L25 where campaigns of unadorned life would be produced. L25 celebrates ambiguity and incertitude.
Berlin Austere - Thread Magazine
Fashion Editorial for Thread Magazine, Dublin exploring the noir Techno mood of the Berlin streets.
In collaboration with Alison Conneely and modelled by dancer Juliana Piquero
Channelling The Germans
Performance artist Vanessa Lodigiani harnesses the dark powers of East Berlin to become the Scylla of Lichtenberg
The Portnoo Hotel
An imagined travelogue undertaken my alter-ego. My younger self strikes out from an abandoned hotel in the beautiful but barren landscape of County Donegal, Ireland as he travels the world he finds an opulence in the graphic shapes and colour of ordinary scenes of life.
Hiberna Moderna – Silchester Grove - Totally Dublin Magazine
Taken from a series of stories shot for Totally Dublin Magazine exploring the changing face of Ireland as it comes to terms with its modernity. This one was in praise of the suburb where quiet genius and creativity is nutured behind manicured hedges.
NICK WEST
Brought up in Dublin and Singapore in the 1980s. Dropped out of many fine educational institutions in the early 1990s. Whilst at London University started to work as a photographer for London Student Magazine photographing the great and good including The Pixies, Echo and the Bunnymen and Ian Mc Kellan. Got a lucky break working as a publicity photographer with the BBC working with all kinds of famous and not so famous characters. Eventually my enlarging ego encouraged me to move into fashion photography where I had more control over the creative output. I photographed fashion stories for D-Side Magazine, Pure and Sleazenation and exhibited work in a group show at the V&A Museum. Then Chloé came along! We formed our duo and somehow charmed the advertising and fashion worlds to keep us busy over the last two decades. Our work has been published in Milk Magazine, Vanity Fair and Vogue our clients include Dior, Diesel, Jaeger-Le-Coultre, BMW and Nike.
Our work has been exhibited at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; The Gallery of Photography inn Dublin and has been recently chosen for the 1316 Studio at the Pompidou Centre.