Departing sharply from the fashion photography for which he is known, Chris Nicholls has created a series of large format images: a study of the highway rock cuts of Northern Ontario. Considered from a temporal perspective, these images remind us that even stone – our exemplar for the permanent, the inflexible – melts, bends, folds and stretches, forged over millennia by gravity and fluid rock well below the earth’s surface. Nicholls reveals the texture, graphic quality, and sheer imposing mass of these monolithic rock walls – the oldest objects on earth – through a uniquely contemporary lens. 

Chris Nicholls is well known for his fashion & beauty photography – both editorial and commercial – and celebrity portraiture. He is a three-time winner of ‘Photographer of the Year’ at the P&G Fashion and Beauty Awards and a recipient of the CAFA Image Maker of the Year Award. His upcoming solo-exhibition will the first presentation of his photographic work in a fine-art gallery context.