About Nic

Nic Bezzina is an Australian-born photographer and visual artist working across documentary-led brand storytelling, portraiture, and emerging AI-driven image making. He is currently based in London.

His work centres on people, subcultures, and shared experiences, often exploring how identity, community, and performance intersect — from music and nightlife to travel, sport, and everyday rituals. Whether photographing real-world environments or constructing cinematic worlds through AI, Bezzina’s approach is grounded in research, access, and emotional authenticity.

With a background spanning editorial and commercial work, Bezzina is known for gaining trust within closed or unfamiliar communities and translating that access into images that feel immediate, human, and lived-in. His recent practice increasingly blends traditional photography with generative tools, using AI not as spectacle but as a way to extend narrative, world-building, and pre-visualisation for brands and agencies.

Bezzina’s work has been published internationally by The New York Times, National Geographic, The Guardian Weekend, China Newsweek, and NME, and he has been commissioned by clients including Booking.com, Xbox, Heinz, Red Bull, Warner Music, and Nat Geo Traveller.

He is the recipient of the PDN Music Moment and Monster Children photography awards and has been a finalist for the Moran Contemporary Photography Prize, BJP Portrait of Humanity, and the Head On Portrait Prize. His work has been exhibited in Sydney, London, and Tokyo, and is held in public and private collections including the State Library of NSW, City of Sydney Archives, and the National Museum of Australia.

Awards

2024 – Finalist – Portrait of Humanity | Photography Awards | 1854 Media
2020 – Shortlist – RPS Environmental Bursary – Ho Chi Minh trail
2020 – Finalist – Urban Photo Awards
2018 – Winner -PDN Music Moment Photography Competition
2018 – High Commended – Head On Portrait Prize
2018 – Finalist – Australia’s Emerging Photographer: Portrait and Documentary
2017 – Highly Commended – International Photography Awards x2
2017 – Finalist – Australian Photography Awards
2015 – Featured Exhibit – Head On Photo Festival
2012 – Recipient Sydney Council Matching Grant
2012 – Finalist – Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize
2011 – Winner of Music category – Monster Children photography competition
2011 – Finalist – PDN Music Moment Photography Competition
2011 – Recipient City of Sydney Visual Arts Grants

Exhibitions

2023 – This is Japan – Goodspace Gallery, Sydney
2017 – Release The Crowd – House of Vans, London
2016 – Release The Crowd – Good Space Gallery, Sydney
2015 – Release The Crowd – Gaffa Gallery, Sydney
2014 – Shopkeepers of Newtown – State Library of NSW
2012 – Newtown Shopkeepers – Chrissie Cotter gallery

Selected Group Shows

2024 – Halloween showcase – Goodspace Gallery, Sydney
2015 – Cam Girls – Head On Photo Festival Featured Exhibit
2010 – NME Music Photography Awards, London
2010 – Polymorph Gallery, Sydney
2007 – Three Songs No Flash, China Heights Gallery, Sydney