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Nick Ballón

Photography and film

Nick Ballón is a UK-based photographer and filmmaker working across portraiture, documentary and design, whose personal work centres on his Anglo-Bolivian heritage. His photobook Ezekiel 36:36 was named one of TIME's best photobooks of 2013.

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About the artist

Nick Ballón is a UK-based photographer and filmmaker working across portraiture, documentary and design; in recent years his personal work has centred on his Anglo-Bolivian heritage, with a focus on loss, identity, place and belonging (Nick Ballón). His personal projects include Ezekiel 36:36, Ciudad Rebelde, on the city of El Alto in Bolivia, and Guarda Islas, on Peru's Chincha Islands (Nick Ballón), which follows the men who guard the islands and their seabirds (WePresent).

Ezekiel 36:36 was listed among TIME's best photobooks of 2013, he was nominated for the Prix Pictet in 2015, and he showed in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2023 (Nick Ballón). He co-founded Picnic, a not-for-profit photography space in East Sussex, and prints his editions at his studio in St Leonards-on-Sea (Nick Ballón; Nick Ballón). The Joseph Clark Collection holds Congregation, a framed print (Joseph Clark Collection).

Sources

  1. Nick Ballón: Biography
  2. Nick Ballón: Personal work
  3. Nick Ballón: Prints
  4. WePresent: Nick Ballon
  5. Joseph Clark Collection

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