Michael Nichols (photographer)

Michael Nichols (born 1952) is an American journalist, photographer and a founder of LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph.^[1]

Biography

Nichols began his photojournalism career in 1979 for Geo magazine^[1] and three years later became a member of Magnum Photos where he worked till 1995^[2] with it founders Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa.^[1] Starting from 1989 he has published more than 30 articles for the National Geographic^[3] and was the same year was in collaboration with Jane Goodall to publish a book called Brutal Kinship. Later on, he traveled to Central Africa where he met with a biologist named J. Michael Fay and then went to Gabon where he visited 13 national parks, including the Ndoki Forest which was featured in one of the NatGeo articles and in his The Last Place on Earth book.^[1] In October 2009, National Geographic magazine have published his article called Redwoods: The Super Trees and in September of 2011 his Orphans No More article was published in the same magazine. As of 2012, he travels to Tanzania on an assignment to document the life of lions in Serengeti.^[2]

Awards

He was awarded 2014 Wildlife Photographer of the Year, an annual international wildlife photography competition owned by the Natural History Museum, BBC Wildlife and the Nature & Wildlife Award at the Sony World Photography Awards.

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