In the mid eighties his longterm documentary work on a minority pit, during the Miner?s Strike, ?Hanging On By Your Fingernails? was published by Spokesman Press and toured by the Arts Council of Great Britain. Based in Birmingham UK, he began working as a freelance photographer for UK National Press and magazines. He also worked as a Film and TV stills photographer with the BBC and Channel 4.

His longterm work centres on environmental, humanrights and landrights issues. Work in South East Asia from the late eighties, living with indigenous peoples, documenting deforestation and native blockades, earnt him a bronze award from UNEP in 1992. This work was published internationally and premiered at Fotofeis Festival of Photography in Scotland.

In the early nineties he joined the environmental agency Still Pictures, London. "Road" documenting the Environmental Road Protesters movement was published by Lighthouse and toured by the Arts Council in 1994. And it was at this time he began documenting the Roma Gypsies across Europe, with the pilgrimmage at Saintes Maries de la Mer in France, "Sara. Le pelerinage des gitans" was published in 2003 by Actes Sud, and the exhibition premiered at Les Rencontres Photographies in Arles.

In the 90's, with ngo's and magazines, his work on took him across the Balkans, covering refugees and diaspora, especially of the exodus of Albanians and Roma from Kosovo, and several trips to Central and South America, working with street children, the aftermath of the Guatemalan civil war, the Yanomami and climate change. He covered the Mad Cow and Foot & Mouth Crisis in Britain. And in 1997 he was awarded a prize in News in the World Press for his work on Mad Cows. His work on 'Meat' production around the world has been widely published.

He is polyvalent and multi-talented, working well on hard news stories, or as a portraitist, shooting travel and tourism, cuisine and aerial photography. His projects include investigative reportage from Sharia Islamic Law in northern Nigeria to Christians in Indonesia; style features on Australian Cowboys and the riding stables of Normandy; work with illustrious French chefs and the style gurus of our time, including Marco Pierre White, Paul Smith, Yoko Ono and John Travolta.

Currently based from Paris and London. Nigel Dickinson works also as a film director and cameraman. His photography is widely published in such as Figaro, Stern, Geo, Di Republicca, Marie Claire, Mare, La Vanguardia, Vogue Homme and the New York Times. He also works with the UN, OECD and various NGO's. In 2000 Dickinson was awarded runner up in the Eugene Smith Award, for his work on Roma across Europe. Parts of this work have also been exhibited by the European Union and shown at Visa Pour L'image. He continues his documentary work on Roma across the world, he is shooting a documentary film in Spain, and continues his work on environment and documentary photography across South East Asia, Africa and the Americas.

Personal web site of Nigel Dickinson