Nick Meyer (born 1981) is an American photographer, living in Western Massachusetts.[1]
Life and work
Meyer received a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston in 2005, and an MFA from California College of the Arts in Oakland in 2008.[2]
His book The Local was made in his home town of Greenfield, Massachusetts in New England and highlights issues with addiction, housing insecurity and small-town decline in America.[3]
Publications
- Pattern Language. Brick, 2010. ISBN 978-0984362004. With an introduction by Melissa Febos.
- Either Limits or Contradictions. Daylight, 2016. ISBN 9781942084341. With a foreword by Aaron Schuman and contributions by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.[4][5][6]
- The Common. 2018. Zine. Edition of 500 copies.[7]
- Good Bones. 2020.[8]
- Obvious Children. 2020. Edition of 50 copies.
- The Local. London: Mack, 2021. ISBN 978-1-912339-90-7.[9][10][11]
References
- "Nick Meyer - Discover - Uprise Art". www.upriseart.com. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
- "CV". Nick Meyer. Retrieved 2021-02-15.
- "A Very True, Very Biased Look At Small-Town America". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 2021-04-06.
- "Finding Beauty in the Everyday". Time. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
- "The photographer obsessed with matters of life and death". Huck Magazine. 28 April 2017. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
- "Book Review: Either Limits or Contradictions". Musée Magazine. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
- "Homelessness, Contradictions and The Common". Good Trouble. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
- ""Good Bones" by Photographer Nick Meyer". booooooom.com. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
- MacLaughlin, Nina. "A book of photographs that captures Greenfield, a list of the region's National Endowment for the Arts grant recipients, and a book about the healing power of plants". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2021-02-15.
- "Nick Meyer. Ritorno alle origini". Rolling Stone. 12 March 2021. Retrieved 2021-04-06.
- Williams, Megan (17 February 2021). "Nick Meyer on creating a project that's close to home". Creative Review. Retrieved 2021-04-06.