About

This website represents the personal photography of Richard Nicholls. Richard is a graphic designer who owns and runs a small design business based in Worcester, UK. More commercial photography can be seen on his Enrich Design website.

“Although I’ve taken photographs for donkey’s years, my forray into documentary photography has been relatively recent. I’ve always looked for the alternative shot in any situation and would often be found pointing the wrong way to what was considered the action, taking pictures of the setting, the peripheral or the people involved. However these were often the “out-take” shots, the quirky one-offs, taken as an antithesis to the obvious picture, looking for something that bit different to the accepted norm.

“It wasn’t until studying for my degree that I began to examine and question my photographic practice and whether it was actually going anywhere. It might have been an age thing, but I’d become tired of the “accepted norm” and the superficial. I began to explore the use of photography to convey meaning or understanding of a situation, and a series of images can often do this more successfully than a single image can.

“I chose to focus on the communicative characteristics of the photo essay for my degree dissertation and this proved to be the catalyst for my change in photographic direction. My work aims to document the ordinary and everyday, presented to give, I would hope, a view that others may not have noticed, or simply discounted. The success or otherwise of an essay depends on the connection that the viewer makes with it, either through experience, empathy or the subject matter itself. I hope that you find something here that you connect with.”