Jon Nicholson
Jon Nicholson Profile
• Jon Nicholson established his reputation as one of the UK’s leading sports photographers during the 1990s while covering the leading Grand Prix racing teams of the day.
• His friendship with Formula One champion driver Damon Hill resulted in a series of acclaimed ‘behind the scenes’ books.
• Jon also spent 10 years working for the UN, mostly in Africa, covering relief efforts in countries struck by war, genocide, famine and HIV/AIDS.
• He worked for the All Sport photo agency, plus The Sunday Times, The Guardian, the LA Times and more.
Every working photographer dreams of the moment later in their career when they can bask in the recognition of a retrospective exhibition. For sports and documentary photographer Jon Nicholson, that moment arrived earlier this year, coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the death of three-time Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna, who Jon had photographed the day before his fatal crash in the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix. But like so many plans, the timing of his exhibition owed more to chance than a calculated decision to release a photo of a man who has become an icon of the sport that played a formative part in Jon’s extraordinary career…
Why have you decided that now is the right time for a retrospective exhibition of your work?
In the 1990s, when I was doing all these books with Damon Hill and sports stars, it was a good time in photography, so I was too busy! Plus I felt at
