Looking back and steaming ahead

Photographer Gary Nicholls’ latest mindboggling work draws its chief inspiration from steampunk, the science fiction genre that fuses futurism with olde worlde Victoriana

On a Mission: photographs by Gary Nicholls are subject to an intense photoshopping process, with the final shots printed on metal to enhance the effect of light and shade

‘My attitude is: if you’ve got something you want to do, then do it before it’s too late.”

Gary Nicholls chuckles. The British photographer is describing his gradual move into the arts from a more solid, business-oriented career. Nicholls, who also runs a sustainability company with his son, has reinvented himself over the past decade, plunging into ...