Nicolas Tanner
New York, United States
Nicolas Tanner is an award winning freelance documentary photographer, writer, and storyteller. He is currently a fellow at The Magnum Foundation in New York and is producing work that will explore how masculinity shapes American culture.
Along with making, thinking, and writing about photography, he likes surfing, puns, and engaging in wanton acts of non-violence. Nicolas has lived and traveled extensively in Brazil, Chile, Spain, Central and Southeast Asia, South Africa and in all corners of the United States. He speaks fluent Spanish and English, advanced Portuguese and Kyrgyz and a basic survival-level Russian. Curious, itinerant, and recalcitrant by nature, Nicolas considers himself extremely fortunate to be able to explore and engage with the world for a living every day.
Nicolas' work has been published and presented in all sorts of ways, including as the print cover of the New York Times, as documentary evidence of ethnic violence for the UNHCR in Kyrgyzstan, and on the walls of Children’s Science Museums. His work from Brazil is currently being featured at Power House in Australia and Month Of Photography in L.A. Other outlets where his work can be found include The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Foreign Policy Magazine, The Washington Post, Al Jazeera, El País, Photophilanthropy, Salon, and Time’s Lightbox, and countless US daily papers. He also works regularly with NGO’s including The Open Society Institute, United Nations, and The Danish Refugee Council.
- Arts
- Audio capture
- Audio editing
- Breaking news
- Conflict
- Editorial
- Environment
- Interview
- Landscape
- Military embed
- Portrait
- RC aerial
- Reporting
- Still life
- Underwater
- Video capture
- Video editing
- Wildlife
- English
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- Russian