Nick fancher

Portrait Shooting inspired by Nick Fancher

See Nick Fancher's intimate photos of two of heavy music's most compelling contemporary acts

This past month I have begun working on a new series, the working title being Strata . I am dealing with obscuring my subject by shooting through a range of different materials. Though I am still early on in the exploration and not sure how exactly it will evolve, my goal is to capture the nature o

I love working with dancers, and Kristie in particular. There is so much power and calculation and precision in her movement (or even just her finger shape). We’ve shot together a dozen times by now, so there is almost no need for communication. She does her thing and I do my best to keep up. The

These portraits of dancers, both ballet and contemporary, are a part of an ongoing personal project.

A couple weeks ago I shot with photographer/model/stylist Hayle Cordle and I leaned back into my passion for color. Since I wrapped writing for Chroma two years ago I have shifted my focus from color to experimenting more with abstraction and texture. This felt more like a simple study of mood,

Here are a handful of my favorite images from January’s Creative Portrait workshop. I’ve been teaching workshops since 2011 and have been slightly modifying the format each time until I found the current iteration. I now cap the two-day class at five students, which allows for more hands-on time and

I had a blast playing around with a range of different prisms, refraction panels, and ring lights last week with @rachelluree . As always, these effects were created in-camera, with the only post work done being color grading in Lightroom.

This was my fourth shoot with Rachel this year and she always brings so much emotion to every shoot (and pose). This was another one of my quickie shoot: two looks, thirty minutes. It never ceases to amazes just how much can come out of a mini session when everything is clicking…