Hi, I am Nicole.
Photographer, photoshop artists, nerd and pixel witch.
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I think it is safe to say that my love for photography started when I got my first (second hand) SLR camera at the age of 16 as a gift from my father and I quickly realised that capturing the magic of people is my favourite thing to do.
Yes, landscape, animals are pretty and I do those for fun on occasion, but photographing people is where the stories are for me.
I always had a fascination with everything a bit different, everything nerdy, spooky, weird and wonderful.
Just take a look at a list of some of my favourite movies from my youth, it gives you an idea what I am talking about….favourite meaning I have seen them lots of times!
The Rocky Horror Picture Show…I have seen it hundreds of times!
Star Wars (original trilogy), Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, Legend, The Dark Crystal, Ghostbusters, Lost Boys, Poltergeist, The Fog, A Nightmare on Elm Street, American Werwolf in London, The Thing, Alien…I think you are getting the picture.
Throw in a life long love affair with mythology, paganism and the occult and a Pixel Witch is born.
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In my teens I wanted to become a special effects make-up artist, like one of my heroes Rick Baker.
Growing up in a small town in Germany somehow didn’t make this an easy task, but I did make it into the make-up department of several theatre productions and even became head make-up artists for the Warner Brothers Movie World Germany’s Halloween event in 2002!
Of course in all that time a camera was always on hand to capture my creative make-up work too.
One of my earliest photo shoots from some time in the 90s, with my first SLR
In 2004 I made the life changing decision to move to the UK.
Working in the creative sector together with my partner on projects like the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures and then finally took my love for photography to the pro level in 2007.
I created ‘The Hourglass’ which focused on vintage style pin-up photography and make-over experiences and was the first of its kind in the UK at the time.
Or to put it in the words of another photographer I have worked with “You were the original!” and I am very proud to say that I was indeed!
Images from The Hourglass time, featuring from left to right Honey Malone, Jo and Ebony Silk
I carried on in this style for many years, but my love for the unusual lead me to learn digital art creation and composite art in photoshop and have incorporated this into my work ever since, leading to more work with cosplayers, re-enactors, musicians, performers and actors, which you can see in the portfolio galleries on this website now.
The magic in the images I create today does not just come from extensive technical knowledge or lots of practice in Photoshop, the real magic happens between the person in front and the one behind the camera during the shoot. We always have immense fun during shoots and quite a few people have come back again and again. An achievement that makes me immensely proud.
So there we are!
Now lets create some magic together!
