Much of his life has been dedicated to documenting the social and political issues that define our times in award-winning documentaries and photography, and in best-selling books such as ‘Danziger’s Travels’ and ‘Danziger’s Britain’. Nick’s initial ambition was to be an artist. He graduated with an MA and taught art school and was represented by the Robert Fraser gallery. Over time his interests shifted, becoming more and more interested in people’s daily lives, often working alongside people and communities living in war zones and on the margins of society in places as diverse as Afghanistan, Colombia, North Korea, Kosovo, Ethiopia and Great Britain.

For him, photography, writing, and documentary filmmaking are complementary tools – different ways of observing, capturing, and bearing witness to the world around him. His first documentary film, War, Lives and Videotape, focused on children abandoned in the Marastoon mental asylum on the outskirts of Kabul won the Prix Italia for best television documentary film. He is also a winner of a World Press Award and recipient of the Royal Geographical Society’s Ness Award in recognition of raising public understanding of contemporary social, political and environmental issues through documentary films and photography.

His work has been published internationally in TIME, Newsweek, Paris Match, Le Monde, Stern, Geo, Vanity Fair, the Sunday Times and other leading magazines and exhibited worldwide. His photographs are also part of several museum collections including the National Portrait Gallery, the Imperial War Museum and the National Media Museum. His documentaries have been commissioned by the BBC, ARTE, Channel 4, The Discovery Channel and the History Channel.

As an educator he continues to advance the promotion of our common humanity.

April 2025

Selected awards:

• Churchill Fellow
• Fellow in Photography National Museum of Photography, Film & Television
• Honorary Fellow, Royal Photographic Society
• Honorary Fellow World Extreme Medicine