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 bicycle, was trying to scare a rival youth gang.
Zed Nelson // The Family
Since 1991, each year a family portrait was made on the same date, against the same backdrop, under the same lighting…
Zed Nelson // Male Vanity: The New Industry
The beauty industry has found a new group of consumers to target, and the more insecure the better…
Zed Nelson // South Sudan: Birth of a Nation
The Republic of South Sudan is the world’s newest nation, achieving independence on July 9th, 2011 following Africa’s longest-running civil war…
Zed Nelson // In this Land: Israel in Fragments
Photographed in the intense light of Israel, this series depict stones gathered from places invested with historical, social, religious or military importance…
Zed Nelson // Disappearing Britain
Disappearing Britain is a historical project that focuses on people or ways of life that are basically becoming extinct…
Zed Nelson // Right Wing Along the Rio Grande
Zed Nelson traveled the length of the Rio Grande river through a part of America that is increasingly right wing…
Zed Nelson // Carmen in 3D
The Royal Opera House has given its production of Carmen the Avatar treatment — and is taking live opera to a new dimension in the cinema – by filming it in 3-D…
Zed Nelson // Drones
In the last few years, ‘drones’ have become synonymous with modern warfare. Impersonal, efficient, and deadly…
Zed Nelson // Shelter in Place (MOTION)
A portrait of a community living in the shadow the mighty Texan petro-chemical industry…
Zed Nelson // Love Me
‘Love Me’ reflects on the cultural and commercial forces that drive a global obsession with youth and beauty…
Zed Nelson // Senegal Skin Lightening
The use of skin-whitening bleaching creams to lighten complexions has reached epidemic proportions in Senegal…
Zed Nelson // Brazil Boxing
One Rio favella boxing club is providing an alternative to a life of gang violence and drug dealing…
Zed Nelson // Cirio de Nazare
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…
Zed Nelson // Toxic Texas
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…
Zed Nelson // Hillbilly Heroin
In the mountain towns of West Virginia, they call it “hillbilly heroin” or “poor man’s heroin”…
Zed Nelson // 911 Spectators
New Yorkers gather around the perimeter of “Ground Zero” to see for themselves the actual reality of the destruction…
Zed Nelson // 911 Aftermath
The days following the unprecedented terrorist attack and destruction of the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers…
Zed Nelson // Iran Nose Job
There are reportedly more nose jobs being performed in Iran today than in any other country in the world…
Zed Nelson // Fat Nation
Nelson photographed the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) annual convention…
Zed Nelson // Fox Hunting
The British tradition of fox hunting is viewed by many as an elitist and cruel past time for the rich…
Zed Nelson // Ku Klux Klan
Klansmen and heavily armed Black Panthers converged on the small Southern town of Jasper, Texas…
Zed Nelson // Oklahoma Drought
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..
Zed Nelson // French Foreign Legion
French Guiana, a tropical French colony on the equator between Venezuela and Brazil, is home to the Legion’s third Regiment…