Nik’s love of photography began at the age of 14 when he borrowed his dad’s 35mm camera for a school art project. A keen enthusiast of traditional photographic practice, Nik built and ran his own darkroom for 10 years, processing and printing in both colour and black and white. This formed the cornerstone of his aesthetic.Nik had his first book, Every Street, published in 2015. The project shot in a barbershop featured portraits of young men from an Asian British neighbourhood in Nelson, Lancashire. His second book, Good Sports, documents the work of the Whitefield Youth Association (also in Nelson), and came out in early 2023. Nik currently has two more book projects in development, the first being, A Day in the Life of the Post-Industrial North and the second entitled, High Fidelity. Both are due out later this year. Nik’s work is intended as a visual exploration of beauty and integrity, both in the extraordinary and the everyday.Editorial credits include The Face, CircleZeroEight, British Vogue, i-D, Beauty Papers, Man About Town, Dazed and Confused, Vanity Fair and GQ.Nik’s work has been exhibited at Somerset House in London and also at the Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool.mail@nikhartley.comLicensing partner: Trunk Archivelicensing@trunkarchive.com