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With a career that stretches back almost 40 years and a new biography, Michael Nichols is in a reflective mood. His smooth Alabama drawl comes down a phone line from his Virginia home as he admits, “I never thought I would have a biography but I thought I would do a retrospective called A Wild Life<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019ve just had a big museum exhibit in Philadelphia \u2013 one of the great art museums in the United States. They\u2019ve never exhibited a photographer like me in any way and we\u2019ve mixed my photographs with its permanent collection and added masterpieces that have something to do with the natural world.”<\/p>\n

Michael Nichols has been documenting this world since the late 1970s in a career that saw him join the Magnum agency in 1982 and then National Geographic<\/em> in 1996, from which he retired as editor-at-large in 2016, following a final assignment in Yellowstone National Park.<\/p>\n

In his early days he was better known as an adventure photographer \u2013 noted for photographing spectacular caves and famously dubbed \u2018The Indiana Jones of photography\u2019 by Paris Match<\/em> \u2013 but this quickly developed into something deeply rooted in conservation issues and the realisation that the power of his photography could change the minds of key decision makers.<\/p>\n

He explains: “It\u2019s very interesting where we are with wildlife right now, so the [book] title works on many levels. The [Philadelphia] exhibit was called \u2018Wild: Michael Nichols\u2019, so I\u2019m playing with the word wild because I don\u2019t think humans really get it.<\/p>\n

“We like tame much better than we like wild [laughs]. Even people who really love animals really like them to be kind of cute and fuzzy; they don\u2019t want them to be really wild and dangerous.”<\/p>\n\t\t

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Mountain gorillas, Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda, 1995. Credit: Michael Nichols\/National Geographic Society<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

Awareness of conservation<\/h2>\n

When quizzed on what was the key trigger that sparked his awareness of conservation Nichols shoots back, “My time with Magnum really helped that because when I came into Magnum, Philip Jones Griffiths [the agency\u2019s then president] was the most high-minded person I\u2019d met.<\/p>\n

“Philip was a pain in the ass \u2013 he was very judgemental, but he was the one who saw my work and encouraged me to join Magnum. I came into Magnum as a colour photographer who used flash to photograph adventure stories and I\u2019d just done a little bit of wildlife, photographing gorillas. But Philip saw something in me that meant ‘he\u2019s gonna grow and become serious’.”<\/p>\n

Nichols returns to the awareness question and says, “If you\u2019re asking about a moment that I saw that [conservation possibility], it was with mountain gorillas as a young man. In 1980, when I photographed them, they were going to disappear and I thought, ‘Wow, we get something with these pictures that\u2019s bigger than just a magazine story.’<\/p>\n

“Once I got on that path, I really never got off. When you do something like that you\u2019re no longer working or worrying about assignments \u2013 you\u2019ve got a mission. Once you\u2019ve got a mission it gives you something to really put your heart and soul into. The fact that photography can change the world is a big deal. It can do it like no other medium \u2013 even a video doesn\u2019t do what photography does.”<\/p>\n\t\t

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Jane Goodall and the chimpanzee Gregoire, Brazzaville Zoo, Republic of Congo, 1995. Credit: Michael Nichols\/National Geographic Society<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

Major projects<\/h2>\n

Since the \u2018conservation fire\u2019 was lit in Nichols he has traversed planet Earth shooting more than two dozen projects, with his trusted Canon SLR cameras not far from his side, and often taking months or even years to finish a project. Regular National Geographic<\/em> readers will be familiar with his work with animals \u2013 chimpanzees, lions, tigers, elephants and more \u2013 as well as projects such as the MegaTransect walk across Africa, his documentation of the battle to save redwood forests in California and his final National Geographic<\/em> project in Yellowstone National Park.<\/p>\n

But, perhaps surprisingly, Nichols admits, “The most important person in my life was my art teacher when I was a kid because she said, ‘You don\u2019t have to be a carpenter or a car mechanic \u2013 you can be an artist.’ Where I grew up [in Muscle Shoals, Alabama] was middle class and you were taught to have a trade, but she said. ‘No, you can be creative’… and then my Mom doing the same thing was reading to me all the time.”<\/p>\n

He continues, “But going into my career… [primatologist] Jane Goodall was my hero before I met her. Jane was always so dignified… I\u2019m a wild kind of character and she taught me to care about the individual. She was very pointed with me, saying, ‘Nick, what if we change one person\u2019s mind and they\u2019re the one who changes the world?’ That\u2019s where you make the difference but I was always for the masses and I still do believe that you\u2019ve got to have both.”<\/p>\n

Nichols has often worked closely with highly driven, often difficult, people such as Goodall, ecologist Mike Fay, zoologist Iain Douglas-Hamilton, tree scientist Steve Sillett and orphan-elephant experts the Sheldrick family.<\/p>\n

He reveals, “None of these people pander to photographers \u2013 they barely f**king tolerate us but they want you to come because then their work [gets noticed]. Me coming with National Geographic<\/em>… they wanted me there but after a few days they just want you to go away because you\u2019ve taken some pictures, but I\u2019m like ‘No. I\u2019m here! You asked me to come and I\u2019m not going away.’ By the end they would always feel that I gave them as good as I got \u2013 it\u2019s an equal exchange.”<\/p>\n

Nichols adds, “But it can be incredibly frustrating to work with maniacal people. Even the wonderful Jane Goodall is not Jane Goodall because she\u2019s passive \u2013 she\u2019s going to get her way. That\u2019s what all these characters do and I found a way to work with them and tell their stories to the world. It was worth it, but it\u2019s painful \u2013 you don\u2019t go through that without emotions, without scarring.”<\/p>\n

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A Wild Life: A Visual Biography of Photographer Michael Nichols<\/em> (Aperture, ISBN 978-1-59711-251-2, priced \u00a325) is written by Melissa Harris and features the photographs of Michael \u2018Nick\u2019 Nichols.<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Embracing technology<\/h2>\n

While the vast bulk of his career was spent shooting on transparency film, Nichols has always been swift to adopt the technologies of the digital age. “I got a good taste of digital \u2013 the stuff I did with lions was some of the best work I ever did and that required all that technology and all the things digital would let you do.<\/p>\n

“Every time that technology would move I would embrace it. I\u2019m not technical so I like to have an assistant who is young and can read all the manuals. Nathan Williamson has worked with me for the past ten years \u2013 and he was a kid who would build a ham radio as a six-year-old, so you know what you\u2019ve got there.”<\/p>\n\t\t

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C-Boy (shot in infrared non-visible light), Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, 2012. Credit: Michael Nichols\/National Geographic Society<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

The state of conservation<\/h2>\n

It seems churlish not to ask Nichols for his thoughts on the state of conservation today and he\u2019s glad the subject is raised. “The thing that freaks me out right now is to have a [US] president talking about that it\u2019s better to have guys working in coal mines, in dead-end jobs that are never going to go anywhere, instead of working in renewable energy. We have a moral imperative right now. Climate change and nature are not just about what we want today \u2013 it goes back.<\/p>\n

“When you have a 1,500-year-old tree or a 3,200-year-old tree, if you think of what\u2019s happened on the planet in the lives of those trees, all of this ‘carbon footprint’ that we talk about and man\u2019s real impact on the planet has happened in that time. Those trees have been standing during that whole time of Man\u2019s impact and we\u2019ve got to back off.”<\/p>\n

He continues, “We\u2019ve got to realise it\u2019s not about animals \u2013 it\u2019s about a moral imperative. It\u2019s about the world and it\u2019s about whether you take care of your nest.”<\/p>\n

Nichols adds, “I believe that photography is probably the strongest tool in making people get that on an emotional level and we have all the policy people who can follow it up with substance. That\u2019s really the sum of my career because I\u2019m after the visceral response of the viewer.”<\/p>\n\t\t

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Northern spotted owl, Humboldt County, California, 2008. Credit: Michael Nichols\/National Geographic Society<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

The future<\/h2>\n

With a recent knee replacement bedding in and his time currently being taken up publicising his biography, as well as two major exhibitions, I ask what\u2019s next? “If I do something else I don\u2019t know what it is yet. I might just stare out into space.<\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t feel like I have to do more. I\u2019m not… [like] Jane Goodall and Mike Fay \u2013 they will continue till they take their last breath, but my photography required so much that I don\u2019t have any more. I think I\u2019ve burned up all that I had. I\u2019m not embarrassed about it. People worry about me and they think I\u2019ll just die, but right now I\u2019m having fun for the first time.”<\/p>\n

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\"MichaelBorn in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, in 1952 Michael Nichols began his career as a US Army photographer. After leaving service he worked for GEO<\/em> magazine and in 1982 joined the Magnum agency. In 1996 he joined National Geographic<\/em> as a staff photographer and became an editor-at- large in 2008. He spent two years documenting the MegaTransect expedition, crossing 2,000 miles of Congo forest on foot. He has won numerous prizes for nature and environment stories. Visit <\/strong>www.michaelnicknichols.com.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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