Nigel Walker has been taking photographs for seventy years now. As well as sequences for exhibitions, such as The Red Dress, Lost, Say Something, Estuary and FLORA , all shows which have been seen recently, he also undertakes portraiture, landscape and travel photographs.

He has been the official photographer for a number of events including Beverley Puppet Festival (one of the largest in Europe), the Fire and Ice Ultra Marathon in Iceland and Stage 4 Beverley – East Riding Theatre's music festival held annually. He is also a frequent speaker at camera clubs and often adjudicates competitions.

Making photographs in both colour and black and white he sometimes works in studios to take still life photographs and portraits.

His exceptional versatility has been hard won over the years through practice and learned skills, although he himself would suggest he is still a beginner in many ways. As a follower of the photographer Robert Adams he believes that great pictures contain three elements :- geography, autobiography and metaphor and he is interested in the philosophical discussions of what a photograph is and might be. He is well connected to the wider artistic community and has served until recently as a Trustee of St Hugh's Foundation for the Arts , an active member of Redeye Photographic Network until its' demise in 2024 and a founding steering group member of We Are Creative. For the last five years he has facilitated The People Collective, a small group of photographers, to work on social/historical projects resulting in three exhibitions which recorded life in lockdown (HUman Impact), the demise of Hull's fishing industry thr0ough the eyes of those who lived through it (Fish !!) and, in 2025 Photo Finish which has recorded life at Beverley Racecourse during 2024. After an initial showing at the racecourse in February 2025 it then appeared in Humber Street pop-up gallery in Hull before settling for a three month stay at Beverley Treasure House (March - June 2026). A selection of his monographs can be seen and bought here.

After a lifetime working in health and social care his retirement has brought him more time to travel and experiment. More recently he has become concerned with exploring what he sees as an increasingly dysfunctional society at both  a political and individual level. He is most interested in using contemporary camera and digital technologies to show this in his work - most recently in Dissonance , with a specially recorded soundtrack by composer Simon-Mary Vincent, for whom he has now provided five album covers. The recent documentary by Mal Williamson Films "The Professional Hobbyist"  explores his work. He is also a proponent of what he calls slow photography that encourages a more considered approach to detail, light and shade. Increasingly he describes himself as an artist who uses a camera to produce his work.

His photographic influences are many and varied stretching from Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier- Bresson and Fan Ho to the more contemporary work of (especially) women photographers such as Cig Harvey, Sally Mann and Maria Svarbova. He believes there is no-one you can’t learn from.

The pictures on this website represent but a small sample of his work and will be changed and updated to represent the whole cross-section of his output. Although this site does not sell directly please use the contact area to let him know if you wish to purchase any prints. Prices will vary dependent on size and paper (canvases, foamex and dibond prints can also be made) but you will always be quoted prior to any commitment. Printing is undertaken locally by Stephen Meredith at Visual Expressions and always to archival standards with oversight from start to finish.

This website will also tell you about upcoming events in which Nigel has an involvement, will guide you to accessing his occasional blogs which considers all matters photographic including the weekly opportunity to join him and up to six other photographers for personal discussions and mentoring on Safe Space - a peer support group for photographers wanting to extend themselves. The contact page allows you to message him directly He can also be found on Instagram as @nigel2664 with over 4000 images available and his You Tube channel @nigelwalkerphoto contains more presentations of his work. In February 2026 this channel will also contain Photo Stories where he talks to photographers about a single example of their work to find out more about their concerns, working methods and the afterlife of the photographs.

He now works from an artists studio at The Ropewalk Gallery in Barton-on-Humber .