Documentary Photography • Britain • 1980s-1990s
Nick Wynne is a British documentary photographer whose archive spans more than three decades. Born in Parkgate on the Wirral in 1971, he began making photographs while still at school.
Wynne studied photography at Wallasey, where Tom Wood introduced him to the work of Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand and Diane Arbus. Watching Wood photograph around Liverpool, New Brighton and the local markets gave the naturally shy Wynne the confidence to approach people with a camera.
At 17, he began photographing Irish Traveller families and New Age travellers living near Shotton steelworks in North Wales. He returned several times a week over five months, producing one of the earliest and most significant bodies of work in his archive. During the same period, he photographed extensively across Liverpool, Birkenhead and Merseyside.
Wynne subsequently made work in Romania and the United States before studying documentary photography at Newport under Daniel Meadows. Photography remained a constant throughout his working and family life, although much of the archive received limited public exposure for decades.
Wynne describes photography as a voice, a means of making contact and, ultimately, his conscience.
Nick Wynne’s selected photographic work is represented by British Culture Archive for print sales and image licensing.