Nicholas Raymond Elliott | |
Birth Name: | Nicholas Raymond Elliott |
Birth Date: | 1995 |
Birth Place: | Peterborough, United Kingdom |
Occupation: | Photographer |
Nicholas Raymond Elliott (born 1955, in Peterborough) is a British photographer.[1]
Elliott grew up in Stanground[2] and joined Ascential when it was East Midlands Allied Press (EMAP). He worked as an editorial photographer for Anglian Times, Motor Cycle News[3] and Motor Cycle Racing.[4]
After Elliott left EMAP he was commissioned by IPC for Truck Magazine, Car Magazine, and Auto Car.[5] Elliott also worked with agencies Saatchi & Saatchi, Yellow Hammer, Carlson, Young & Rubican, GGT, Ogilvy & Mather, and MSBK.[6]
In 1990, Publicis' campaign If You're Not Feeling Too Special for Sonatogen placed 3rd in Euro Best Awards using Elliott's photography. Elliott was commissioned by TBWA to photograph the 1992 UK general election billboard for the Liberal Democrats.
Elliott has photographed musicians throughout his career, shot in Nashville, Tennessee,[7] in 2010 and for Planet Rock.[8]
In 2011, Rufus Stone[9] released a book; TEN-A Decade In Images, using Elliott's images from the Cambridge Folk Festival,.[10] Elliott published a follow-up; 50Folk, as a personal celebration of 50 years of the festival, in 2014.
A year later, Elliott released Three Weeks One Summer documenting The Marmalade during the making of Penultimate.[11] A fourth book, Ice Cream & Sun Cream, was released in 2017.