Nigel Dickinson, British born documentary photographer, photojournalist and filmmaker working for over 35 years. His work focuses on the environment, human condition, marginalized communities, sustainable development, identity and culture. He graduated from Sheffield University in 1982 with a BA in Communications Arts, photography and film. In 1983 his photographs on public protest ‘Demonstrate’ were exhibited at Camerawork Gallery, London. 1984 Work about Race and Class in South Africa entitled ‘Soweto Country Club’ was exhibited, published in UK national press. In the eighties, Hanging On By Your Fingernails" about striking coal miners, their families and the Great Strike, was published by Spokesman Press and toured by the Arts Council of Great Britain. Based in Birmingham UK, Dickinson worked in documentary and as a freelance for UK national press. Dickinson shot documentary campaigns with Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and Amnesty International. Several trips across South East Asia, documenting indigenous peoples, deforestation and native blockades won him UNEP bronze award at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, work that was premiered at Fotofeis, Scotland. Dickinson joined Still Pictures and later Polaris Images. ‘Road’ about Environmental Road Protest in UK was published and toured by the Arts Council in 1994. During the 1990s Dickinson began his longterm documentary work on Roma across the world. Ten years at Saintes Maries de la Mer in France Gypsy festival “Sara. Le pelerinage des gitans” was published by Actes Sud, 2003, and premiered at Les Rencontres, Arles. He worked across Bosnia and Kosovo during the Balkans wars, covering refugees of war, diaspora and ethnic cleansing; and Central and South America with street children, the aftermath of Guatemala’s civil war, the Yanomami, climate change in the Amazon, Brazil and the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch in Honduras. In 1997 he received a World Press for his work on BSE and Mad Cows, with an insider’s view of their incineration. Since then he photographed the Meat industry across the world, and man's relationship to the beasts he kills and eats. This work, MEAT has been shortlisted for the European Publishers Award and exhibited at the Hayward Gallery, London 2015. Sharia Islamic law was shot in northern Nigeria in 2003. Dickinson was runner up in the Eugene Smith Award in 2000, for his work on Roma. For many years he documented the rise of anti-gypsyism and Roma across the world, Romania and Bulgaria, United States, South America and India. This work has been shown at the Venice Biennale, at Visa Pour l'image, the OSI Documentary Series 'Moving Walls’; published by National Geographic Magazine, D Republicca, Mare, La Vanguardia, Figaro, Stern and Geo. Dickinson's documentary photographs about Smokey Mountain rubbish dump, in Phnom Penh, won Critical Mass 2011 and have been exhibited around the world, including Houston Fotofest in 2016. Since 2012 Dickinson revisited the Borneo rainforest to film and photograph the indigenous peoples of Sarawak, whom he first visited in the 1980s. His twenty five year work “Roma Beyond Borders” will be soon be published by Actes Sud. Most recently Dickinson has been working across China and on Brexit in the UK.Nigel Dickinson also directed several short documentary films for the IFRC, IEA, Red Cross and Tamera. Dickinson works as a documentary photographer and filmmaker between Europe, the Americas and Asia.