NB: not all the images are by Zed Nelson

The 2013 Photoworks Senior Research Fellowship in photography and lens based media at The British School at Rome (BSR) has been awarded to Zed Nelson. His residency...

Light House is co-hosting the exhibition Love Me by the multi award-winning photographer Zed Nelson. Light House will be working with Wolverhampton Art Gallery who...

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The state of Israel is a relatively new phenomenon. A memory of the long history of Jewish exile and persecution and the short turbulent history of the Jewish state...

"Love Me" explores the insidious power of the global beauty industry and our collective insecurity, vanity and fear of ageing. In a series of compelling images,...

CFD Barcelona: http://cfdbarcelona.com/ The feature: South Sudan - The Nation Makers

Perspektivet Museum, Tromsø: http://www.perspektivet.no/ The feature: Love Me

Years ago, someone shot my friend and tried to shoot me. The experience compelled me to travel across America documenting the carnage created by the estimated 270...

Zed Nelson's portraits from Hackney, A Tale of Two Cities are being exhibited at Photofusion in a group show entitled 'Residual Traces' until 7th September 2012. ...

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Zed Nelson has been named winner of the CFD Documentary Photography Competition 2012 (CDF Barcelona) The jury formed by James Estrin (editor from the Lens Blog,...

Zed Nelson is giving a 5-day Masterclass workshop at the Fotopub festival, Slovenia. Attendance costs 350 euros. It will be an intimate group of only 8 people in...

The British Journal of Photography is running a venue at Arles this year called Temporary Office Location, along with Self Publish Be Happy and Hard Copy. They're...

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From the Greek myth of Narcissus to classical Greek and Roman sculptures, male vanity has historically been present in many forms. Grecians created myths to signify...

Life in the wake of the expenses scandal. Disgraced, depressed and in some cases imprisoned: politicians tainted by the expenses scandal talk about trying to...

'Love Me' will be exhibited at Impressions Gallery from 5 May to 24 June 2012. In LOVE ME, Zed Nelson reflects on the cultural and commercial forces that drive...

© Zed Nelson/INSTITUTE Zed Nelson's 'Hackney - A Tale of Two Cities' and Paolo Wood's 'Radio Days' to be exhibited for the first time at the new Philadelphia...

Last year, a 16 year-old schoolgirl was killed by a gunshot fired through the window of a fast food restaurant in Hackney. The gunman, 21 years old and riding a...

© Robert Leslie David Chancellor was also at the awards but was MIA for the shoot - Sorry David L-R - Frank Evers, Zed Nelson, Kate Peters, Rena Effendi,...

The project has just turned 21! Zed Nelson began this project in the summer of 1991. The wife of a friend was nine months pregnant, and he had an idea –...

From the Greek myth of Narcissus to classical Greek and Roman sculptures, male vanity has historically been present in many forms. Grecians created myths to signify...

Africa's largest country has officially split in two. The Republic of South Sudan is the world's newest nation, achieving independence on July 9th, 2011 following...

(Ship Builders, Boxers, World War II Veterans, Cornish Fisherman, Yorkshire Miners, Foxhunters) Disappearing Britain is a historical project that focuses on...

"Love Me" explores the insidious power of the global beauty industry and our collective insecurity, vanity and fear of ageing. In a series of compelling images...

Zed Nelson’s seminal project "Gun Nation" - a disturbing reflection on America's deadly love affair with the gun - is widely considered to be the definitive body...

Zed Nelson traveled the length of the Rio Grande river from Colorado to the Mexico border, through a part of America that is increasingly right wing, armed and...

Royal Opera House, London. Stung by charges of elitism and eager to expand its audience, the Royal Opera House has given its production of Carmen the Avatar...

In the last few years, ‘drones’ have become synonymous with modern warfare. Impersonal, efficient, and deadly. Used for either surprise attack or invisible,...

‘Love Me’ reflects on the cultural and commercial forces that drive a global obsession with youth and beauty. Over a period of five years INSTITUTE artist...

Israel is a surprisingly tiny country. If one were to travel every inch of the nations land and sea borders, after 732 miles you would end up back on the same spot,...

The use of skin-whitening bleaching creams to lighten complexions has reached epidemic proportions in Senegal, despite widespread education campaigns about the...

Gangs and drug warlords rule Rio's favellas, running pitched battles with police who rarely enter their neighborhoods except in force. For young people, gang...

On the second Sunday of October in the great Amazon port of Belem, the largest Catholic festival in Brazil takes place. Its called the Cirio de Nazare. Celebrated...

Leisure World is the first US city exclusively for the elderly. A self-governing 4-square mile community surrounded by a barbed wire fence, where the average age is...

In the tiny mountain towns of West Virginia and the neighboring hill counties of Virginia and Kentucky, they call it "hillbilly heroin" or "poor man's heroin". They...

It is the vast, sprawling complexes of oil refineries and petro-chemical plants that help make the Texan economy one of the biggest in the world. But does the...

In the days following the unprecedented terrorist attack and collapse of the World Trade Center, New Yorkers begin to gather around the perimeter of "Ground Zero"...

In the days following the unprecedented terrorist attack and destruction of the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers, New Yorkers struggled to come to terms with the...

There are reportedly more nose jobs being performed in Iran today than in any other country in the world. For more than 20 years strict social rules have...

Fat Nation was an assignment that seemed to have all the trappings of a stereotypical look at the prevalence of obesity in the USA. Nelson talked his way in to the...

Zed Nelson's seminal project Gun Nation - a disturbing reflection on America's deadly love affair with the gun - is widely considered to be the definitive body of...

The British tradition of fox hunting is viewed by many as an elitist and cruel past time for the rich. The battle between those who call for an outright ban and...

Klansmen and heavily armed Black Panthers converged on the small Southern town of Jasper, Texas, in a confrontation that looked like a hideous throwback to the...

Two years of drought in Oklahoma and Texas and a mounting toll of farm bankruptcies across the farm belt revived memories of the great dust bowl of the 1930's,...

French Guiana, a tropical French colony on the equator between Venezuela and Brazil, is home to the Legion’s third Regiment. 850 Legionnaires are stationed here,...