Nick Koudis is an American
photographer
A photographer (the Greek language, Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who makes photographs.
Duties and types of photographe ...
known for images that have a double meaning that poke fun at social insanity. Almost all of his photographs are created using
special effects
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such as miniature or oversized props, or have been digitally manipulated in
Photoshop
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.
Koudis was born in
New York City
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in 1957, spent a portion of his childhood in
Brisbane
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,
Australia
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, then spent twenty-five years shooting
advertising
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images in
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L ...
.
In 1995 Koudis was a charter photographer at
Photodisc
PhotoDisc, Inc. based in Seattle, was a publisher of digital stock photography free of royalties. It was founded in 1991 by Tom Hughes, Mark Callaghan and Mark Torrance, who later became the chief executive officer and chairman. After receiving the ...
, now
Getty Images
Getty Images Holdings, Inc. is an American visual media company and is a supplier of stock images, editorial photography, video and music for business and consumers, with a library of over 477 million assets. It targets three markets— creative ...
. As such, he was a pioneer of
royalty free
Royalty-free (RF) material subject to copyright or other intellectual property rights may be used without the need to pay royalties or license fees for each use, per each copy or volume sold or some time period of use or sales.
Computer standards ...
stock photography
Stock photography is the supply of photographs which are often licensed for specific uses. The stock photo industry, which began to gain hold in the 1920s, has established models including traditional macrostock photography, midstock photography, ...
. His stock images have since been published widely. He has photographed multiple covers of ''
Time
Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to ...
'' magazine. Since 2000, he has been photographing celebrities in
Los Angeles
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, where he now resides.
His work has received th
One Show award Andy Awards for advertising, PDN/Nikon Awards, and is featured in ''Adobe Photoshop Studio Techniques'' by
Ben Willmore
Ben Willmore is an American photographer, author and founder of Digital Mastery, a training and consulting firm that specializes in photography and Photoshop. He is best known for his digital imaging expertise and for writing the book Photoshop St ...
.
External links
koudis.com1000 Koudis photos on Gettyimages.com
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Stock photographers
Photographers from New York (state)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people