Nick Ballon photographs a host of famous faces for leading magazines

Date
10 December 2014

Whenever we’ve featured Nick Ballon on the site in the past, we’ve tended to focus on his self-initiated projects such as his terrific study of a Bolivian airline or his work in the weird world of wrestling. However Nick is also a super-talented editorial photographer and his portraits for the likes of the The Sunday Times and The Guardian’s weekend supplements are well worth exploring.

Nick’s aware of the expectations these kinds of commissions come with, and so is happy to play with them when he sees fit – see the knowingly pensive Simon Amstell or the cocksure, confrontational Russell Brand and the binocular-wielding Michael Palin. Elsewhere he demonstrates a refined simplicity in work like Daphne Selfe for Intelligent Life, toys with composition in his Es Devlin portrait and renders Bill Woodrow as a delightfully doleful bee-keeper for the Royal Academy’s magazine.

Above

Nick Ballon: Es Devlin for Protein Journal

Above

Nick Ballon: Daphne Selfe for Intelligent Life

Above

Nick Ballon: Bill Woodrow for RA Magazine

Above

Nick Ballon: Michael Palin for The Sunday Times Magazine

Above

Nick Ballon: Michael Palin for The Sunday Times Magazine

Above

Nick Ballon: Simon Amstell for The Guardian Weekend Magazine

Above

Nick Ballon: David Dawson The Sunday Times Magazine

Above

Nick Ballon: Russell Brand for The Guardian Weekend Magazine

Share Article

Further Info

About the Author

Rob Alderson

Rob joined It’s Nice That as Online Editor in July 2011 before becoming Editor-in-Chief and working across all editorial projects including itsnicethat.com, Printed Pages, Here and Nicer Tuesdays. Rob left It’s Nice That in June 2015.

It's Nice That Newsletters

Fancy a bit of It's Nice That in your inbox? Sign up to our newsletters and we'll keep you in the loop with everything good going on in the creative world.