Nick Sinclair
Nick Sinclair (1963-) is a photographer from the United Kingdom. The National Portrait Gallery in London holds 148 of his portrait photographs in its collection.[1]
After graduating from West Surrey College of Art and Design in 1986, Sinclair spent a year in Amsterdam working on The Stage project with a portable studio worked in Amsterdam.In 1990 "The Stage", together with six portraits of peers were exhibitted at The Photogaphers' Gallery, in London. In 1990 he started work on the Parliamentarians project from which came the first of his photographs to be acquired by the National Portrait Gallery.[1]. The project, together with a series of photographs of scientists commissioned by Cable and Wireless was exhibitted and toured by the NPG in 1994. In 1998 the NPG exhibitted a series of portraits of senior doctors, commissioned and published by the British Medical Journal, as "With Head & Hand & Heart". Sinclair has completed several other photography projects, including images of student life at Green College, Oxford (1998) and "Scooterlands" 1999, photographs of classic scooters in Italy and India.
Most recently, in addition to portrait photography, Nick Sinclair has been producing work focussed on our responses to a changing environment. In 2007, he was awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Travel Fellowship to visit China and photograph street level recycling in seven Chinese cities.[2] In 2008, the Winchester Gallery, at the Winchester School of Art, exhibitted three projects under the title, "Water, Ice, Vapour". One of these projects, "A Drop in the Ocean", photographs of plastic water bottles adrift in the North Sea, was nominated for the international sustainable photography prize Prix Pictet.[3]
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