Michael Nichols

Michael "Nick" Nichols (born 1952) is an American journalist, photographer and a founder of the LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, Virginia. His biography, A Wild Life, was written by Melissa Harris and published by Aperture. and the same year was in collaboration with Jane Goodall to publish a book called Brutal Kinship. During Nichols' time with National Geographic, his stories have covered subjects including old growth Redwoods, the world's remaining tigers and the emotional relationship of the elephant family.

Later on, he traveled to Central Africa where he met with biologist J. Michael Fay and then went to Gabon where he visited 13 national parks, including the Ndoki forest which was featured in one of the NatGeo articles and in his The Last Place on Earth book. Having been a staff photographer there since 1996 and editor-at-large since 2008, Nature & Wildlife Award at the Sony World Photography Awards

Personal life Nichols lives in Sugar Hollow, Virginia, with his wife, artist Reba Peck.