Nick Carver

I’m one of those lucky people who found their passion early in life. In 1999 at the age of 12 and at the earnest peer-pressuring of my best friend, I took an elective photography class at my middle school. It was 35mm black and white film. I got my hands on an SLR camera for the first time and developed and printed my own film in the darkroom. I was smitten from day one. It’s been a long time since I first fell in love with photography but I’m even more enthusiastic and passionate about it today than I was all those years ago. My work and approach has evolved immensely since then. My early influences were the icons of nature photography - Thomas Mangelsen, Galen Rowell, Art Wolfe. Fiery sunsets and vivid colors were my muse, and I was proud to call myself a landscape photographer. In more recent years I have moved away from that epic landscape style. I discovered the work of Gregory Crewdson, Andreas Gursky, and Julius Shulman. I transitioned back to traditional film photography for nearly all of my personal work. And although you’ll still find heavy nature and landscape influences in my portfolio, I like to think my approach now is more mature and thoughtful, less reliant on cru…