Photos of Nic by De Strange (LHS) and Jess Allan (RHS)


Hello

Based in the little town of Denmark, on Western Australia’s south coast, I’m a professional photographer working throughout WA, and beyond. My work is varied—portraiture, documentary and commercial photography, stills photography for film and television, and the occasional wedding—and invariably I’m trying to tell stories through my images. 

I love celebrating community and life beyond the traffic lights, and for more than twenty years, I’ve been photographing people throughout regional, rural and remote WA. Inevitably I find myself drawn to the fringe dwellers—those living life by their own rules in out of the way places,

In 2019 alone, I drove over 22,000kms from my home on the south coast to the north eastern State border crossing, through the Great Southern and Wheatbelt, inland through the Murchison and the Goldfields, and east, west, north and south through the Gascogne, Pilbara and Kimberley regions. One hundred of the portraits I took on that road trip were shared on Perth’s Yagan Tower for twelve months and seen by more than a million people, in an exhibition called ‘Beyond the Traffic Lights’. A selection of the portraits from that adventure are here, with more photos and the stories behind them in my Travel Journal

I’m grateful to have been a three-time finalist in the National Photographic Portrait Prize, 2015 AIPP WA Professional Portrait Photographer of the Year, a finalist in the last five Fremantle International Portrait Prize, winner of WA Life Head On Photography Festival, and recipient of both the John Whitfield King Award and the Orloff Award.