The Judges - Entering Westminster Abbey at the opening of the New Legal Year, 1994
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The start of the New Year on the first Monday of each October, is marked by a procession of judges arriving at Westminster Abbey from Temple Bar for a religious service. The custom goes back to the Middle Ages, and the prayers for the guidance of God, 'the final and supreme judge of all', today seek help in 'holding the wisdom of the past, the traditions in which we stand, and in discerning the developments of the future'. Up until the Reformation, the judges were required to fast, hence it became customary for the Lord Chancellor to offer them someting to eat before they went into court. From the series The British - In 1994 he began a journey to capture the lives of Britains dispossessed communities. Taking more than 5,000 pictures which have evolved into series of photographic, documentary TV and writing projects on the nature of modern Britain, it was a two year journey which was hailed by Pete Davies in The Independent as ‘so important that every one of us should read it and weep’.
30.0 x 40.0 cm (11¾ x 15¾ inches)

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BIOGRAPHY
Nick Danziger is probably one of the most widely traveled and unique photo-journalists at work in the world today. Born 1958 in London to an American father and English mother, he went to school in Switzerland but by the age of 13 was already traveling.

Following an MA at Chelsea art school he held one-man shows in London and New York whilst working as a visiting lecturer. However his desire to travel was overwhelming and in 1982 he was awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Fellowship, using it to travel the ancient trade route from Turkey to China, through Iran, Afganistan and Pakistan. This he did on foot or in traditional local transport, documenting his trip in diaries as it unfolded. His first book, ‘Danziger’s Travels’ was based on these explorations and became an instant bestseller.

The documentary film ‘War Lives and Videotape, which was made in Afganistan in 1991, focused on the lives of the children abandoned in the Marastoon mental asylum in Kabul. It was the first film Danziger made and following its showing as part of the BBC’s video diaries series, won the Prix Italia for best television documentary series. This was succeeded by the 1992 book, 'Danziger's Adventures: From Miami to Kabul’. travels from the glitterati of Palm Beach to a massacre of Kurdish refugees, from the Ayatollah Khomeini's funeral to Kabul under rocket fire (editorial review).

In 1994-95 he was made the Fellow in Photography at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford and the Bradford and Ilkley Community College. His photographs continued to appear in newspapers and magazines worldwide and his work formed the basis of the recent Channel 4 series ‘Postcards from the Edge’, praised by Lynne Truss in The Times as ‘quite superb’ and by The Independent as ‘remarkable’ and ‘outstanding’.

Danziger’s second series for Channel 4, ‘The Fight for Hearts and Minds’, was nominated for the Grierson Award, and in 1996 he was also nominated for the Journalist of the Year by the Royal Television Society.

Nick has won many awards in recognition of his work, including, in recent years, the Special Award, Festival Nord-Sud Geneva; Premiere Russo, Italy, Journalist of the Year; and the Ness Award, The Royal Geographical Society. He is a member of Mission Enface, adviser to Learning for Life and Vice-President of Action Innocence. He has also been nominated for various media industry awards including a BAFTA for Best Journalism/Current Affairs in 2000. His photographic book ‘The British’ was awarded Best Monochrome Illustrated Book, by The British Book Design & Production Awards in 2002 and was selected by The Sunday Times as one of its Photography Books of The Year. In 2004, he received the honorary award of Doctor of the University of Central England in recognition of his travel writing and photography and first prize in the portrait category of the World Press Photo awards.

Since then he has been planning a challenging and topical new book Women Facing War to be published in French on 8 March, 2007. His most recent exhibitions have been at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Exeter (March-May 2006) ‘The British’, Millenaris Park gallery, Budapest Hongrie (March 2006) ‘Caught in the Crossfire’ and a touring exhibition entitled ‘Eight’ to visit Singapore, Phnom Penh, Bangkok, Delhi from March 2006.
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