Nick Cobbing

Photographer

Nick Cobbing joined Cape Farewell on the 2007 Art/Science Expedition. Taking almost three weeks the expedition crossed the north Atlantic to the extreme frontline of climate change, then sailed south to explore East Greenland’s Blosseville Coast. Nick will be making the journey up to the High Arctic again as part of the 2008 Art/Science expedition.

Nick is a photojournalist, cameraman and photographic artist based in London. His work concentrates on Environment, Ecology and Community, exploring the diverse and changing relationship between humankind and planet Earth. Nick’s recent project Surface Tension picked up four awards for the photography. Surface Tension is a series of aerial landscapes, featuring the interior of the Greenlandic ice-cap and showing, in abstract style, water and ice systems.

Nick's visits to the Arctic have produced a powerful body of work about the wilderness of Greenland and the complexity of ice systems. Clocking up many hours of sea time, the oceans and seas have also exerted a powerful influence over his work.

He continues to explore the possibilities of both photojournalism and the gallery setting, this approach allows his work to explore the way that environmental issues and wilderness are represented and considered across contemporary culture. A strong narrative structure and sense of 'story telling' runs through all his work, following a decade working in photojournalism and a passion for good magazine design.

His work has been honoured by Time Magazine's Pictures Of the Year feature, recognised by major photo awards POY and the NPPA, profiled in Photo District News and selected by photo yearbooks such as American Photography. Within photojournalism his work has been reproduced across the spectrum of international news magazines and natural history publications, notably The Sunday Times Magazine, Mare and Geo.

In addition to making images, he enjoys giving illustrated lectures of his photography. As well as being hugely entertaining, these give an articulate comment on representation of environmental issues. He also produces a lively website of his work, made more inspiring by a rich contextual background of captions and text.

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