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| Meeting With Nick Danizger in Mandalay in 2018 |
I (Aung Myint Thu) was meeting with Nick Danizger in Mandalay 2017 who has a really interesting story . Nick Danziger was born in London but grew up in Monaco
and Switzerland. He developed a taste for adventure and travel from a young age
and, inspired by the comic-strip Belgian reporter Tintin, took off on his first
solo trip to Paris aged 13. Without a passport or air ticket he managed to
enter the country and travel around, selling sketches to make money. Nick’s
initial ambition was to be an artist, and he later attended The Chelsea School
of Art, where he gained an MA in Fine Art and was soon represented by the
Robert Fraser Gallery.
But his
desire for travel remained. In 1982, he applied for and was awarded a Winston
Churchill Memorial Fellowship, and used it to follow ancient trade routes,
travelling on foot or by traditional local transport from Turkey to
China, documenting his adventures in diaries. The diaries and
photographs formed his first book, the best selling Danziger’s Travels in 1987, and a second
book, Danziger’s Adventures, followed in 1993. His third
book, published in 1996, Danziger’s Britain, was a social and political
commentary on the state of Britain, and was said by the UK’s Independent
newspaper to be, "so important that every one of us should read it
and weep".
His
photographic book, The British (2001), was awarded Best
Monochrome Illustrated Book by The British Book Design & Production Awards
in 2002, and was selected by The Sunday Times as one of its Photography Books
of The Year.
He has
since travelled the world taking photographs and making documentary films, and
has become one of the world’s most renowned photojournalists. His photographs
have appeared in newspapers and magazines worldwide, toured museums and
galleries internationally, and are held in numerous museum collections
including the National Portrait Gallery in London, the National Media Museum in
Bradford and Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow.
He has won
several prestigious awards for his photography including, in 2004, the World
Press Photo 1st Prize in the Single Portrait Award for his ‘mirror’ image of
Prime Minister Tony Blair and President George W. Bush. The picture was taken
during Danziger’s 30-day, ground-breaking study of a Prime Minister at
war.
His
documentary work is also award-winning. In June 1991, his documentary video
film ‘War, Lives and Videotape’, based on the children abandoned in
Marastoon mental asylum in Kabul, won the prestigious Prix Italia for Best
Television Documentary.
In 2007,
he was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Royal Photographic Society, and he
is holder of the Royal Geographical Society’s Ness Award in recognition of
raising public understanding of contemporary social, political and
environmental issues through documentary films and photography. In 1996 he was
nominated for Journalist of The Year by the Royal Television Society.
Nick has
spent much of the last 25 years photographing the world most dispossessed and
disadvantaged. More recent photography projects have included a study of the
impact of armed conflict on women and travel to eight of the world’s poorest
countries to meet individuals living in extreme poverty. The aim was to
document the progress being made towards meeting the eight ‘Millennium
Development Goals’ set by the United Nations to eradicate poverty by
2015.
For Nick’s
latest project he has returned to Bosnia to follow attempts to identify the
remains of the thousands of men, women and children missing from the recent
wars in the region. (
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| Photo of Nick |
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