Nicholas King
Classic Portraiture
Santa fe, NM
A heirloom portrait transforms
a moment in time into
a timeless moment.
Nicholas approaches your portrait session with a singular passion: his desire to reveal a fleeting moment of your spirit and beauty as a work of art that endures for generations.
His portraits have been exhibited at the Renwick Gallery in Washington D.C, the Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio, and the Oakland Museum of California.
ABOUT THE PROCESS
For Nicholas, portraiture is a collaborative act.
He creates a bubble in which he and you are sheltered from the outside world and focus on co-creating an environment that allow one to reveal facets of their outer and inner beauty.
Decades of work with landscape photography taught Nicholas the value of patience in waiting for the right moment to expose a negative and craft a fine art print. Years of making portraits at Burning Man taught him how to respond to those fleeting moments of expression that, through the lens, reveal one’s spirit and beauty.
But making the photograph in camera is just the first step in your portrait for Nicholas. He inspects all your images. For every portrait selected for printing, he personally spends as long as it takes to make all corrections such as misplaced strands of hair, blemishes, wrinkles in clothing that may distract from the feeling of the photograph. To bring out each person’s beauty and spirit, he enhances expressions through shading and highlighting to ensure each image is a well-crafted work of art.
Finally, Nicholas personally monitors the production of the print at a professional laboratory. This guarantees your portrait meets the highest artistic standards of appearance and longevity to warrant qualification as a heirloom fine art print.
Whether it is in the portrait session or the process of producing a fine art print, I pour my heart into creating a portrait that reveals a beautiful element of one’s being to others and gets passed on to future generations.
