Nabil Elderkin is an American-born Australian film and music video director and photographer, who is of Iranian and American descent. He is mononymously credited as Nabil in his videos. Elderkin has directed videos for musical artists such as:

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, and

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. Born in Chicago and raised in Australia, he is most recently based in Los Angeles, California.

Early life

Elderkin was born in

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, to an American father and an Iranian mother. His family moved to

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, Australia when he was age 2,''The Australian'': Shooting the breaks
/ref> and he became a naturalised Australian citizen. He studied at Port Macquarie High School and was a keen sportsman, particularly an avid surfer. His initial experience of photography was through photo shoots of the surfing scene in Australia. In early 1990s, his parents separated and his mother returned to the United States. Soon Elderkin, just 17 at the time, joined his mother in Chicago. He studied photography and for some years photographed music bands and concerts and Chicago-based DJs.

Career

His big break came when he befriended the then relatively unknown rap artist

. Elderkin had heard a Kanye West mixtape and had tried to contact the rapper by looking up www.kanyewest.com. The website came up as unregistered but available for registration, so he bought the

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on an impulse. Three weeks later an executive from

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contacted Elderkin to tell him the label had just signed Kanye West to a multi-album deal and wanted to know how much he was asking for the domain name. Elderkin wasn't interested in a payment for the domain and preferred to transfer the domain name provided he could meet the new artist and do a photoshoot with him, these images went on to be the artist's first publicity photos.

also happened to be at the photoshoot which led to the two forming a relationship, and future video work together where Elderkin introduced Legend to his future wife,

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. Nabil Elderkin's work has appeared in many platforms including advertising, magazine editorials and covers, artist branding, music videos, books, album covers and photojournalism. His clients list includes, amongst others artists,

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, James Blake,

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. He has worked for record labels

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print and broadcast media ''

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'',

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, Rizzoli, as well as fashion personalities like designer Jeremy Scott and model

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, the charity

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and manufacturers

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. Elderkin also photographed

's biographical book '' Glow in the Dark'' documenting the Kanye West's "

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" in 2008. His endeavour into photojournalism in war-torn

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through co-operation with

worker Claire Lewis resulted in a critically acclaimed exhibition at the

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in New York in 2007. He also has directed numerous films for Frank Ocean, such as

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, Novacane and Swim Good. His feature-length debut is the award-winning documentary film ''

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/ref> about a breakdance workshop for teaching

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culture to Ugandan disenfranchised youth. The film was financed by

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through its Red Bull Media House. In 2019, he completed his first narrative feature

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starring

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, and

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. ''Gully'' debuted at the 2019

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. He is also a co-creator and producer of the new documentary series Beat Nation. The series is also produced by Mattia Bogianchino and

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Bibliography

*2009: '' Glow in the Dark'' (Book and CD) – by Kanye West, photography by Nabil Elderkin

Filmography

*2010: ''

'' *2015: '' Captureland'' *2019: ''

Videography

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– " Hunger of the Pine" *

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– "Higher" *

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– " The Game" *

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- " Love Again" *

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– "Patience" *

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– "Bodyshot" *

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– " Two Weeks" *

– "

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– " Swim Good" *

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– " P.D.A. (We Just Don't Care)" *

– " All of Me" *

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– "Coldest Winter" *

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– " DNA." *

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featuring

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– "Tiff" *

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– "Firm & Strong" *

– " Change Is Gonna Come" *

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Awards

References

External links

Official websiteInterview with Nabil Elderkin (2009)
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