Nicholas Sinclair


Nicholas Sinclair is a British portrait and landscape photographer. His work has been published in a number of books of his own, exhibited eight times at the National Portrait Gallery in London, and is held in the permanent collections there and in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. In 2003 he was made a Hasselblad Master.

Life and work

Sinclair was born in London. He studied fine art at Newcastle University.
His career as a photographer began in 1982 with a series of photographs taken in the circus which were first exhibited in 1983 at the University of Sussex and subsequently published in the British Journal of Photography.
He is known principally as a portrait photographer, his subjects include Anthony Caro, Frank Auerbach, John Piper and Paula Rego. He has edited two books about the Welsh artist Kyffin Williams and made portraits of him.
Sinclair also makes landscape photographs – he has made two books on European cities and one on a lake.

Publications

Publications by Sinclair

Selected solo exhibitions

His work has been exhibited eight times at the National Portrait Gallery, London

Collections

Sinclair's work is held in the following permanent collections: