Where the Camera Meets the Natural World

Nigel Housden - Professional Photographer & Photojournalist

I have always been interested in Natural History and photography as the means to capture images of the variety and beauty within the natural world. My interests in nature and wildlife, conservation, travel by bicycle and rural affairs, enabled me to build up a rapidly developing portfolio and client list, when I started out as a professional over 25 years ago.

In this time I have worked and continue to work for most of the mainstream media (which has included Sky, BBC Countryfile, Future Publishing, IPC Media, TI-Inc, Bauer Media, Archant, Newsquest and global publishing houses), numerous conservation trusts and charities, PR companies and private individuals. The themes and styles may have changed as our countryside, diminishing solitary wild places and wildlife habitats have come under more and more pressure from human development and disturbance, destruction and pollution.

And through a multitude of restrictions our freedoms become diminished as does our access to the wider English countryside. Natural history, conservation and campaigning has become one of my main areas of photography and photojournalistic project work.

The historic land clearances and systematic enclosure of commoners land are echoes from an older period of rural life but, in its various, wider and Political forms, this rhyme is as relevant today as it was in the late 1700’s:

They hang the man and flog the woman

Who steals the goose from off the common

But let the greater criminal loose

Who steals the common from the goose 

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