Nick Fancher 1/11/21 Nick Fancher 1/11/21

Plants and Plastic with Chyna

I’ve collaborated with Chyna a dozen times now, and we’ve since become friends. She recently came by the studio and we chatted about work, life, and plants, among other things. I had recently propagated one of my plants by splitting it into two pots, one of which I gave to her. Before she left I asked if she would want to do an impromptu shoot with her new green friend. After snapping a few frames with the plant I convinced her to let me shoot some colorful long exposure images…

Nick Fancher 11/6/20 Nick Fancher 11/6/20

Plastic Galaxies

It’s been a while since I’d shot images for my series One Man’s Trash, where I repurpose single-use plastic, so it was fun to make these images with Katy. She’s draped in a mattress bag and her pointy fingers came from vials saved from the chemlab at her school. I love the eerie sci-fi aesthetic in the images.

Nick Fancher 4/13/20 Nick Fancher 4/13/20

Remotrait Session with Aleksa Palladino

In my last post I described how I’ve begun to do remote photo shoots, via FaceTime. By hooking a projector up to my laptop while I’m on a call with my subjects— who are often not just in a different state but sometimes in a different country— I can project their face onto a backdrop in my studio. Then I shoot through a range of different materials and substances, throwing the subject slightly out of focus, which takes the focus off the poor video connection and puts it on the texture, helping sell the illusion that the subject was actually in my space. I’ve dubbed these portrait sessions “remotraits”…

Nick Fancher 12/30/19 Nick Fancher 12/30/19

Trash Talk

These images were created during sessions with three different models. I love the variation between each of them. The textures are just so stunning. I can’t decide whether I like this series better in black and white or color. I suppose it could also work to go back and forth. Thoughts?

Nick Fancher 12/23/19 Nick Fancher 12/23/19

True Blue

This was my first time shooting with Hakim, an illustrator and painter from Columbus. When he showed up at me studio I thought it’d be helpful for us to sit down and chat for a bit in an effort to get to know each other and get more comfortable…

Nick Fancher 12/17/19 Nick Fancher 12/17/19

Gettin' Weird with Jade

Jade and I have collaborated a bunch of times over the years, most notably on the Beartooth album, Disease. My favorite things about working with her are her punctuality, her professionalism, and most of all her willingness to get weird. This shoot proved to be more of the same…

Nick Fancher 12/13/19 Nick Fancher 12/13/19

Fantastic Plastic

Chyna popped by my studio last week to update her digitals. Of course I couldn’t let her get away that easily...

Nick Fancher 12/9/19 Nick Fancher 12/9/19

One Man's Trash...

This marks my third shoot with Melissa this year. Though she now lives in NYC, she was in town for the holidays and asked if I’d be interested in doing a plastic-themed shoot. In preparing for the shoot sent me a few images from a recent Vogue Portugal fashion story that implemented single-use plastics into their shoot. I really enjoyed how they repurposed trash into the creation of something new and beautiful. I knew that I would want to take a different approach to the idea by capturing the texture of the materials and experimenting with creating more abstract portraits, and so I asked Melissa to “rescue” a range of plastic from her life over the next week and bring a range of options with her to the shoot…