With an interest in the spectacle of modern warfare, I explore spaces in which conflict occur particularly interested in the indirect effects on war; how they surface in the everyday and how these issues are dealt with in absence of mainstream media. Using a simple, unintrusive approach to many of the projects, I attempt to make invisible subjects visible through the use of landscape and context. Photographing in a slow and quiet manor, I try to force the viewer to study the image to extract the most information they can to then be reinforced by their own contextual knowledge and personal views. Consciously realising my place as a western spectator of modern conflict issues, I try to make work which aims to resonate with the western viewer in a non-confrontational way, believing empathy is most effective when the viewer pieces the puzzle together for themselves. 

 

Exhibitions

International Photography Exhibition 164, The Royal Photographic Society, Bristol, 2023.

Sala Salon, Battersea, London, 2021.

Balkans Today; The Present of A Wounded Landscape. Exarcheia, Athens, 2020.

Long Live Southbank, Bermondsey Project Space, 2019. 

Offprint, TATE, 2018. (Including panel discussion with Self Publish Be Happy)

Cream '15, Crane Kalman Gallery, Brighton, 2015. 

UCA Graduate Show, Rochester, 2015. 

Free Range, Truman Brewery, 2015.

Black Box, Medway Photo Festival, 2014. 

Awards

Arts Council England funding 2021 

Belfast Photo Festival 2021, Shortlist 

International Photography Grant 2019, Third place

Nikon/NOOR Academy Masterclass 2018

Metro Imaging Award 2018, Shortlist

Burn Magazine Emerging Photographer Fund 2018, Shortlist

Magnum Graduate Photographer of the Year 2016, talked at Photo London 2016

Source Graduate Photographer of the Year 2015

Publications (online)

'Recording New Histories'  Discussing my practise and introducing upcoming new work. Broadcast with Prospect Art. https://www.prospectart.org/broadcast-nicholas-constant

'I No Longer Love Blue Skies'  By Antar Kuri Gomez. One Work series with Prospect Art https://www.prospectart.org/one-work/i-no-longer-love-blue-skies

Predator/ Protector   https://www.scopionetwork.com/blog/2019/9/18/predator/protector-by-nicholas-constant

'Future of Photography', Huck https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/next-generation-british-photographers/

 Predator/ Protector  with interview   https://www.photograd.co.uk/nicholas-constant-1

Firn with interview   https://www.photograd.co.uk/nicholas-constant

Burn Magazine EPF shortlist https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2019/04/untitled-3/

Firn in Vice as part of Balkans Today https://www.vice.com/el/article/m7aq5q/ta-balkania-stis-bitrines-twn-e3arxeiwn

Firn in LiFO as part of Balkans Today https://www.lifo.gr/blogs/almanac/ta-balkania-simera-paron-enos-pligomenoy-topioy

NOOR Masterclass https://www.noorimages.com/nicholas-constant 

Dont Take Pictures, Photo of the Day https://www.donttakepictures.com/photo-of-the-day/2020/2/8/nicholas-constant 

Firn. International Photogrvphy Magazine http://internationalphotomag.com/nicholas-constant-firn/

ArchDaily, Long Live Southbank https://www.archdaily.com/883405/why-the-restoration-of-the-southbank-undercroft-is-a-landmark-for-both-architecture-and-skateboarding?ad_medium=gallery

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