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Girls get lost! – the masculine photographs of Nicolas Coulomb are well worth exploring

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Date
28 May 2012

Some truly first-rate photographs here by Nicolas Coulomb but if you’re here looking for uncommonly good looking boys and girls, then you’re in the wrong place. Nicolas is all about the men, and you can see why. His ability to take a man (I say man, I mean model) and photograph them so well that they are almost camouflaged into their surroundings is a fine skill in itself. What’s really impressive though, is his palette: watch as he combines the skin tone, garments and architecture surrounding each chiselled model into a set of colours that work so well together it’s almost as if he’s painted it. See his full collection of masculine portraits here or look out for his work in Novembre magazine.

A person with slicked-back hair looks directly at the camera with a neutral expression. They wear a beige zip-up jacket with a grey collar, posed against a weathered green sculpture.
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Nicolas Coulomb: Pascal for Novembre

A person sits on a white concrete ledge, looking off to the side. They wear a beige knit sweater and red, white and navy striped trousers.
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Nicolas Coulomb: Steven for Novembre

A person with a buzzed haircut is seen from behind, looking away from the camera. They wear a textured, beige knitted sweater.
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Nicolas Coulomb: Steven for Novembre

A person wearing dark sunglasses and a black suit looks slightly to the side. They are lit by a sharp beam of light against a bright orange background.
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Nicolas Coulomb: 2 boys with sunglasses

A person with short, dark hair sits with their head bowed and hands clasped. They wear a structured, grey textured blazer over a black top and black trousers.
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Nicolas Coulomb: Marc & Daniel for Novembre

A black and white portrait of a person wearing a dark suit jacket and a light-coloured shirt. They look directly at the camera against a plain, textured wall.
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Nicolas Coulomb: 4 boys in Dries Van Noten

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Liv Siddall

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Liv joined It’s Nice That as an intern in 2011 and worked across online, print and events, and was latterly Features Editor before leaving in May 2015.

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