Sherrie Nickol by Sherrie Nickol

Coming of age and the poetry of everyday life in stunning street photography and intimate portraits.

Photographer Sherrie Nickol captures relationships, environments, and everyday life, both intimate and public. Her inaugural book, self-titled Sherrie Nickol (Hirmer Publishers), takes us on a journey through time and place. This stunning new release organizes scenes of familiarity, domesticity, public spaces, and private life into five distinct sections. It will be available for purchase in August 2024 in the EU/UK and September 2024 in the United States.

Through portraiture and street photography, Nickol has developed a body of work demonstrating her knack for capturing beauty in everyday domesticity and urban life as part of a crowd, the essence of narrative in every photograph. Scenes have no definable era but evoke the mood of a bygone decade.

Sherrie Nickol takes us through five distinct sections, each separate but always in conversation with one another. In Between-Teen, Nickol spent time stealthily observing her son and his friends and the awkward metamorphosis of their teenage years. The result is a sometimes candid, raw portrait of youth captured with sincerity.

By the Water and Crowdscapes explores public privacy, individuals going about their daily life, some posing, some unaware of their picture being taken, oscillating between urban photography and portraiture. By the Water captures the carefree feeling of summer, as celebrated across the world. Photographs from this project span the seaside towns of Brittany in France to Brighton Beach in Brooklyn, focusing on the intimacy of families, friends, and lovers breaking with their routines and swarming toward the water.

In Between-Teen © Sherrie Nickol

By the Water © Sherrie Nickol

Crowdscapes © Sherrie Nickol

The In the Moment photographs combine the candid with the personal as narrative events unfold throughout the imagery in this portrait of families and friends in public places. A girl cries as mud is washed from her clothing at a public tap, friends head to a prom-like event, and a toddler looks beyond the camera with speculation.

In Face to Face, the final section, Nickol documents the lives of women from an early age as they navigate the world around them. Mostly portraits, these images exhibit gentleness and a quietude that exhibit the elegance with which Nickol collaborates with and treats her subjects.

In the Moment © Sherrie Nickol

Sherrie Nickol
Sherrie Nickol is a New York–based photographer. She grew up in Osceola, Arkansas, and attended the University of Cincinnati and the International Center of Photography, where her studies centered on portraiture and reportage photography. Recent projects have focused on youth, people in public spaces, summer scenes, and dancers' portraits.

She has lived her adult life in New York City. Her photographs are in the permanent collection of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France in Paris and in numerous private collections in the United States. She has mounted one-person exhibitions at Temple University and The National Arts Club in New York City.
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Face to Face © Sherrie Nickol

Bryan Adams: Hear the World

By Bryan Adams

Publisher : Steidl

2024 | 264 pages

Hear the World is a visually compelling and heartwarming collection of over 120 portraits by musician and photographer Bryan Adams, created in collaboration with the Hear the World Foundation. This beautifully curated book brings together some of the most recognizable faces from the worlds of film, music, fashion, and beyond—including Julianne Moore, Bruce Springsteen, The Weeknd, Priyanka Chopra, Jared Leto, Léa Seydoux, and Lenny Kravitz—all captured through Adams' distinctive lens. Each subject strikes the signature "Hear the World" pose, with a hand cupped behind one ear, symbolizing their support for hearing awareness.

The Hear the World Foundation, which focuses on supporting children with hearing loss in low- and middle-income countries, is grounded in the belief that every child deserves the opportunity to hear and live life to its fullest. Adams has been a passionate collaborator with the foundation since 2007, and Hear the World is the culmination of their shared vision to highlight the importance of conscious hearing and advocate for global accessibility to hearing care.

The portraits in Hear the World offer more than just familiar faces—they capture the humanity, individuality, and solidarity of renowned ambassadors uniting for a vital cause. Each image stands as a reminder of the preciousness of sound and the often-overlooked gift of hearing. Through this striking visual anthology, Adams not only showcases his skill behind the camera but also raises awareness of hearing loss and celebrates the foundation's mission.

This book is a testament to the power of art, philanthropy, and collaboration, making Hear the World a touching and meaningful contribution to both the world of photography and the cause of hearing health.

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Mary Ellen Mark: Indian Circus

By Mary Ellen Mark

Publisher : Steidl

2024 | 160 pages

Playful yet haunting, Mary Ellen Mark’s photographs of Indian circus performers depict a world on the brink of disappearance. In 1969, Mark first traveled to India and photographed a circus, captivated by its "beauty and innocence." Two decades later, she returned for six months to document 18 circuses across the country, from bustling cities to remote villages.

Ranging from large troupes with hundreds of performers—both human and animal—to small, intimate acts, Mark's lens captures not the spectacle of the shows, but the quiet moments in between: scenes of practice, rest, and life beyond the spotlight. Her focus is on the human experience—marked by the contradictions of humor and sadness, beauty and hardship. By the time of Mark’s project, Indian circuses were already fading, holding onto an innocence long lost in the West, as they struggled against the pressures of the modern world.

This new edition of her 1993 book preserves the original text and images but reimagines the sequence and design, staying true to Mark’s poignant vision of a dying art form.

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Peter Lindbergh: Dior

By Peter Lindbergh

Publisher : TASCHEN

2024 | 512 pages

Peter Lindbergh photographed Dior’s most exceptional muses, Marion Cotillard and Charlize Theron among them, and signed campaigns for Lady Dior and J'Adore with his inimitable style. Throughout his career, the photographer was one of the house’s closest collaborators. This final book was an original cocreation that was close to the artist’s heart—and to ours.

Seventy years of Dior history projected against the effervescence of Times Square, New York: this was the concept behind Lindbergh’s project, extraordinary both in scope and dimension, for which Dior, in an unusual move, allowed an unprecedented number of priceless garments to be taken from its vaults in Paris and shipped across the Atlantic.

The result is electric. Amid the frenzy of Times Square, Alek Wek glows in the immaculate 1947 Bar suit, the storied ensemble that launched the House of Dior. In snatches of street scenes, models Saskia de Brauw, Karen Elson, and Amber Valletta flit through crowds and scaffolding, are reflected in building façades, and draped in haute couture, from pieces hand-sewn by Christian Dior to more recent designs by Maria Grazia Chiuri. Lindbergh’s trademark monochrome and color photographs masterfully highlight the intricacies, silhouettes, and textures of each garment.

Lindbergh himself is present in every aspect of this publication designed by his long-time collaborator and friend Juan Gatti. This volume features 165 never-before-published images from the shoot, including an introduction by Martin Harrison, and pays homage to Lindbergh’s profound relationship with the Parisian House by curating more than 100 of his photographs of Dior creations, from haute couture to ready-to-wear, men’s and women’s, originally published in some of the world’s most prestigious magazines such as Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. A breathtaking tribute to two pillars of fashion and photography and their timeless collaborations.

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Toilet Alex Paper Prager

By Alex Prager, Maurizio Cattelan, Pierpaolo Ferrari

Publisher : Damiani

2024 | 40 pages

A captivating fusion of the surreal worlds of Toilet Paper and the striking imagery of artist, director, and screenwriter Alex Prager, the latest issue of Toilet Paper magazine presents a visual dialogue between these creative forces. The issue showcases 12 of Prager’s evocative images alongside 12 conceived by the Toilet Paper team. Known for its vibrant aesthetics and playful visual twists, Toilet Paper enters into a dynamic exchange with Prager’s technicolor universe, where the line between reality and fiction is artfully blurred. Her signature use of archetypes, everyday objects, humor, and allegory creates a provocative and mysterious journey throughout the pages. This collaboration follows in the footsteps of ToiletMartin PaperParr (2018), a special edition that celebrated the iconic work of internationally acclaimed photographer Martin Parr, along with the creative minds of Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari. Like its predecessor, this issue brings together distinctive visual worlds in a way that delights and intrigues.

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