Works

Education

MA Photography (Distinction) LCC, University Arts London (2022)

Artist Residencies

2025 La Wayaka Current – Atacama Desert

2024 Montello Foundation, Nevada, USA

2023 UAL AER JOYA arte + ecologia residency, Spain

Recognition

2023 Royal Photographic Society Environmental Bursary

2023 Finalist – The Sony World Photography Awards 2023 - Landscape

2023 Shortlisted – Athens Photography Festival

2023 Shortlisted - Royal Photographic Society-IPE 164

2022 Winner - Genesis Imaging Postgraduate Award

2020 Selected - Arles Open Walls 

Publications

2025 Dark Mountain: Issue 28 -Uncivilised Art

2024 Royal Photographic Society Journal Winter

2024 Echtrai Journal - Edition 4 - landscapes lost, abandoned, forgotten, mythic

2023 Geographical Magazine - August

2022 Source Magazine Graduate Special - Selected by Josh Lustig

Exhibitions

2025 Amoeba - Stockroom - Stockport

2024 Amoeba - PINK - Stockport

2024 Art For The Environment Exhibition, Groundwork Gallery, Kings Lynn

2023 Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition 

2022 ‘Dewpoint’ - The Humid, The Georgia Museum

2022 MA Photography Graduate Show - LCC - UAL

2020 Galerie Huit Arles - Arles Open Walls - Growth

Book Publications

2023 What if culture was nature all along? - edition of 30

2024 IR - Collective 454 - Risoprint Zine - edition of 200

Collectives / Groups

Founding member of Collective 454

Member of the Groundwork Gallery Group of Artists

Curation

Curator of Dark Peak Photography Festival 2024

‘An Eye in Reserve, Egypt 1935-1939’, Lee Miller Archives, 2022

Academic

‘Landscape/view: The Survey Photography of Timothy O’Sullivan’ 2020

Nicholas Holt is an artist working with photography to investigate our relationship with the natural world. His projects balance an intuitive, personal vision with varied physical and conceptual terrains. He draws on John Cage’s notion of art as self-alteration rather than self-expression.

He holds an MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography with distinction from London College of Communication, University of the Arts London (2022).

He has been awarded the Royal Photographic Society Environmental Bursary (2023) and was an artist in residence through the UAL AER programme at JOYA: arte + ecología, Spain (2023). He was also artist in residence at the Montello Foundation, Nevada, USA (2024), and at La Wayaka Current, Atacama Desert (2025).

Group exhibitions include Amoeba, Stockport (2024–2025); GroundWork Gallery, Norfolk (2024); Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition (2023); Dewpoint – The Humid, The Georgia Museum, USA (2022); and Galerie Huit Arles, Arles Open Walls (2020).

His work has been published in Dark Mountain Art Special (2025), Echrai Journal (2024), The Royal Photographic Society Journal (2024), and Source Magazine (2022).

He was Artistic Director of the Dark Peak Photography Festival (2024) and curated and edited An Eye in Reserve: Egypt 1935–1939, a book project with the Lee Miller Archives (2022).

He is a founding member of Collective 454, an international group of research-based, environmentally focused photographers, named after the age of the Earth (4.54 billion years). The collective’s first publication, IR (2024), was featured at Photobooks Switzerland, Geneva.