Nick Danziger

Nick Danziger HonFRPS CF (born 22 April 1958) is a British photographer, film maker and travel writer.

Early life Danziger was born in Marylebone, London but grew up in Monaco and Switzerland.

In 1982 he received a Churchill Fellowship which enabled him to spend 18 months on the ancient Silk Route from Turkey to China, disguised as a local traveller, taking photographs which resulted in his book Danziger's Travels. Danziger has since travelled the world taking photographs and making documentary films. Most of his work is based on people living in difficult circumstances, particularly young people. His photographs have appeared in newspapers and magazines worldwide, toured museums and galleries internationally, and are held in numerous museum collections.

For The British, Danziger created a photographic documentary in black-and-white images. From the halls of Westminster to inner-city communities beset by crime and unemployment, the exhibition depicted both the traditions and reality of life in Great Britain in the 1990s for a range of social classes.

Through individual and personal stories, Behind the Headlines – Afghan Lives investigated a country often in the news but little understood by those outside its borders. For Revisited, in 2010 he retraced his steps from 2005 to find out what has happened to the women and children he met.

Eleven Women Facing War tells eleven stories of women from Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Colombia, the Balkans, Israel and the Palestinian Territories. Danziger initially photographed these women in conflict zones for an International Committee of the Red Cross study in 2001. Ten years later, he set out to find each one to learn what had become of their lives.

In 2000, the United Nations' eight Millennium Development Goals were put in place to achieve universal primary education, reduce child mortality and improve maternal health. Danziger travelled to eight of the world's poorest countries and met individuals living in extreme poverty. Through the stories of 40 men, women and children he sought to document the progress being made towards meeting the eight goals.

For Blair at War, in March 2003 Danziger and Peter Stothard began a 30-day study of a Prime Minister at war, with access to Tony Blair's "inner circle" as he confronted an angry nation and deployed British forces against Iraq.

Mana was made inside the sacred space of an All Blacks camp—revealing the highs and lows of New Zealand's iconic rugby team.

Danziger appeared on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs on 16 March 2003. In 2007 he was the guest on Radio 4's Great Lives nominating Tintin although "Tintin breaks all this programme's rules. He didn't exist, and he hasn't died."

Publications Danziger's Travels: Beyond Forbidden Frontiers. Reissued. 1993 . Danziger's Adventures: From Miami to Kabul. Reissued. 2009. . Missing Lives. Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2010. . Danziger's Britain: A Journey to the Edge. New edition. 2011. . Mana. Hodder Mao / Hachette NZ, 2010. . Onze Femmes Face à la Guerre = Eleven Women Facing War. Lieux Dits, 2011. . Above the Line: People and Places in the DPRK (North Korea). British Council, 2014. .

Awards 2007: Honorary Fellowship of The Royal Photographic Society

Exhibitions Blair at War National Portrait Gallery, London, 2001 Canadian War Museum, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 2008 Simon Fraser University, Teck Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2008/09 London Gallery West, University of Westminster, London, 2010 Eight-Millennium Development Goals County Hall, London, 2005 National Library, Singapore, 2006 The Photographic Society of Singapore, Singapore, 2006 Wat Phnom Exhibition Centre, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 2006 Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand, 2006 Foreign Correspondents' Club of South Asia, Delhi, India, 2006 Monasterio San Nicolo, Lido, Venice, Italy, 2007 Embassy of the United Kingdom, Budapest, Budapest, Hungary, 2008 International Business School, Budapest, Hungary, 2008 Centre Culturel Alban Minville, Toulouse, France, 2009 Behind the Headlines – Afghan Lives Host Gallery, London, 2006 Tron Gallery, Glasgow, 2007 Canada House, London, 2007 Between Heaven and Earth: A Journey Through Christian Ethiopia Royal Geographical Society, London, 2009 École Biblique et Archéologique Française de Jérusalem, Jerusalem, 2010 A. M. Qattan Foundation, Ramallah, 2010 The French Cultural Center, Nablus, 2010 Dar Annadwa, The International Center of Bethlehem, Bethlehem, 2010 Centre Culturel Français Romain Gary de Jérusalem, Jerusalem, 2010 National Museum of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, 2010 Lalibela World Cultural Centre, Lalibela, Ethiopia, 2012 Women Facing War, Théâtre de la Photographie et de l'image, Nice, France, 2008/09 The Historic Neighbourhoods and Houses of Herat and Kabul, Afghanistan, Musée des Arts Asiatiques, Nice, France, 2009/10 Missing Lives Riverside Walkway', Gabriel's Wharf, London, 2010 Kalemegdan Fortress, Belgrade, Serbia, 2010 Trg Djece, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Hercegovina, 2010 Mother Teresa Square, Pristina, Kosovo, 2010 Spanski Trg, Mostar, Bosnia-Hercegovina, 2010 Bana Milosavljevica, Banja Luka, Republika Srbska, 2010 Trg Strossmayer, Zagreb, Croatia, 2010 Strasbourg, France, 2010 Place du Luxembourg, Brussels, Belgium, 2010 Canadian War Museum, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 2011 Multicultural Hub, Melbourne, 2011 Waisenhausplatz, Bern, Switzerland, 2011 Guerre et Paix: Femmes dans le XXIeme siecle, Salle d'Exposition du Quai Antoine 1er, Monaco, 2011 Mana, Britomart, Auckland, New Zealand, 2011 Onze Femmes face à la Guerre – Eleven Women Facing War Hôtel de Ville, Paris, 2011 Canadian War Museum, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 2013 Founders' Gallery, The Military Museums, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2013 Galerie Ferrero, Nice, France, 2012 Revisited Royal Geographical Society, London, 2011/12 The Brindley, Runcorn, 2013