Dominic nahr biography

Dominic Nahr was.
Dominic Nahr is an internationally acclaimed photographer known for his captivating and evocative images.
Dominic Nahr (Switzerland, 1983) is a contract photographer for TIME Magazine based in Nairobi.

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Dominic Nahr

B.1983 - SWISSBased in Zürich

Dominic Nahr was born in Appenzell, Switzerland and grew up in Hong Kong. After graduating from Ryerson University’s School of Image Arts in Toronto in 2008, Dominic moved to Kenya, where he has devoted himself to documenting conflicts, humanitarian crises and critical social issues. Dominic's clients, amongst others, include: National Geographic Magazine; Der Spiegel; Schweizer Illustrierte; and Médecins Sans Frontières. He was a contract photographer for Time Magazine from 2011 until 2015..

He has received numerous accolades picking up awards from World Press Photo Award, Pictures of the Year Awards, Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award, Swiss Press Photo Award, and was twice nominated for the Prix Pictet. In 2015, he was named Swiss Photographer of the Year by the Swiss Photo Academy in Zurich.

Dominic's photographs have been exhibited internationally in solo shows, at such places as The Swiss Foundation for Photography, Les Rencontres d'Arles, twice at Visa pour l’image in Perpignan, and NRWForum Kultur und Wirtschaft in Düsseld

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Since 2006 Dominic has documented stories across the African continent, from Somalia to Senegal, Mali to South Africa. He witness to the Arab Spring in Egypt, famine in Somalia, border conflict between the governments of Khartoum and Juba, political unrest and terrorist attacks in Kenya, and war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

He has exhibited in the Visa pour l’image and most recently at the 10×10 100 Years Leica Camera Anniversary. In 2009 Dominic was the recipient of the Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award, the Sony World Photography Awards and was mentioned by PDN Magazine as one of the ‘Top 30 under 30 Photographers’. The following year Dominic was selected to take part in the Joop Swart Masterclass sponsored by World Press Photo in The Netherlands and he has since received grants from the Pulitzer Center and the Emergency Fund. He was recognised for his work covering events in Egypt, Somalia and Sudan by World Press Photo and Pictures of the Year Awards in both 2012 and 2013.

His editorial clients include TIME, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, National Geogr

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FAQ

Q: How did you first become interested in photography? Was there a photographer or type of photography that influenced inspired you to pick up a camera?

- From The Leica Camera Blog Interview

A: I grew up in Hong Kong and was fascinated by the war photographs that were displayed in the Foreign Correspondents Club in Hong Kong, where my parents were members. The images from Vietnam sparked my curiosity, which then lead me to research deeper into war photography, where I found books on Chechnya, Beirut, Kosovo, etc. I have had several mentors along the way who have helped me move from one level to the next and for this I am grateful. I was kind of forced into photography as a profession early on when one of my mentors, an AP photographer called Hugh van Es, told me to take up an internship at our local newspaper in Hong Kong. I had taken a few frames beforehand during class trips, but nothing serious. Being thrown into the deep end and being forced to work right away was great. There is no other way to know if something is for you until you do it full-tim