Bio
Nick Turpin was born in London, UK in 1969, Studied ‘Art and Design’ at the University of Gloucestershire then ‘Photography, Film and Video’ at the University of Westminster until 1990 when he left to work as a staff photographer with The Independent Newspaper leaving in 1997 to pursue a second career in Advertising and Design photography. In 2000 Nick was the founder of the international street photographers group in-public and in 2010 he established Nick Turpin Publishing. Nick has also taught and lectured on contemporary street photography at Museums, Universities and on TV.
Exhibitions
1998 A Camera in the Tate – Tate Britain, London, UK.
2006 Group show Crosswalks -Contemporary Street Photography at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art.
2006 Group show Onto the Streets Photofusion Gallery, London. Touring with The British Council
2009 Group Show in-public @ 10 – Photofusion Gallery, London.
2010 Street Photography Now – Third Floor Gallery, Cardiff, UK.
2010 Street Photography Now Paris – Canal Saint-Martin, Paris
2010 Group Show – Galerie Lichtblick, Cologne, Germany.
2011 Group Show – Uno Art Space, Stuttgart, Germany.
2011 London Street Photography, Museum Of London, London, UK.
2011 Group Show Format International Photography Exhibition 2011, Derby, UK.
2011 Entente Cordiale: Images from France & England, St Pancras Station, London, UK.
2011 Group Show in-public @ 10 Les Ballades Photographiques, Seyssel, France.
2011 Group Show From Distant Streets, Galerie Hertz, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
2012 Group Show London Street Photography, St Pancras Station, London, UK.
2012 Group Show World International Photography Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2018 Group Show [SPACE] STREET. LIFE. PHOTOGRAPHY, House of Photography, Hamburg.
2018 Group Show London Nights, Museum of London.
Books
Street Photography Now, Thames & Hudson, 2010
10 years of in-public, Nick Turpin Publishing, 2010
London Street Photography 1860-2010, Dewi Lewis Publishing 2011
On The Night Bus, Hoxton Minipress 2016
London Nights, Hoxton Mini Press 2018
[SPACE] STREET. LIFE. PHOTOGRAPHY 2018
Interviews and Articles
Media
Interview from the street photography film in-sight a 38min documentary following in-public Street Photographers in London , New York, Melbourne and Rotterdam available
A Sky Arts Interview with Nick Turpin and Richard Bram at the Format International Photography Festival 2011 in Derby, UK.
BBC Radio 4 program Picturing Britain
BBC London Radio Interview about ‘On The Night Bus’