Zik Nelson (born 1965, 1967 or 1968 ), known professionally as Zed Nelson, is a British documentary photographer and filmmaker who works on long-term projects about contemporary social issues. He lives in London. In 1999, his Gun Nation photography series, about guns in America, won the Visa d'or Feature Award at Visa pour l'Image and a First prize World Press Photo award. Prints from Gun Nation are held in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. In 2010, his Love Me photography series, about Western beauty ideals, won a First prize award from Pictures of the Year International. The Anthropocene Illusion is about the fractured relationship between humans and the natural world, for which he was awarded Photographer of the Year at the 2025 Sony World Photography Awards. Nelson's films include Gun Nation (2016), a follow-up to his book; and The Street (2019), about gentrification in London.
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Humanity’s fractured relationship with the natural world, documented through medium-format colour photography of zoos, theme parks, and museums across fourteen countries on four continents.
Globalized beauty ideals and bodily insecurity under consumer capitalism, documented through formal color portraits, clinical still lifes, and surgical scenes.
Books
The Anthropocene Illusion
- Public Knowledge Books, 2025
Love Me
- Contrasto, 2009