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Nitin Vadukul’s photography crosses the barriers of just a moment in time and moves seamlessly into four dimensions and this makes his photographs truly one of a kind. Each of his photographs is unique and he uses no one style. Nitin creates an individual voice for each subject, as he has done for the likes of Radiohead, Moby, Tommy Lee Jones just to name a few. His unique style and sensibility along with his strong technical yet artistic flare make him a true visionary and talent in the industry.

Nitin has photographed and conceptualized campaigns for quite a number of high profile music, computer and sporting good companies. He has shot album covers for Ozzy Osbourne, Mudvayne and Eve. He has also photographed campaigns for Nike, IBM and Hewlett Packard among others.

Nitin grew up in London, England after moving there at the age of 4 from Nairobi, Kenya. His photography career started at the age of 16, shooting for magazines and landing jobs with advertising agencies and photographing album covers for record companies. In 1994, he moved to New York City where he now lives

Art Statement

The photographs that comprise my exhibition "The Art of War" began as a
series of disjointed images drawn from my dreams. The earliest image of this series was that of a jet fighter pilot. I have always been drawn through photographs and movies to the idea of a man, compact and perfectly cocooned within this ultimate military machine, whose only purpose was to search and destroy. I see this as a metaphor for modern times in that as human beings we are on a continuous search for information. Conversely, our need to destroy is born of a lack of humility.

"The Art Of War" reflects many of my ideas about the virtual world. Each of
my characters inhabits his or her own nightmarish plane. Life, death, happiness,
sadness; nature shows us that life is balanced, and when any one element
overpowers the other the result is catastrophic.

Since I was a child, I have been fascinated with the idea of seeing the
world through the eyes of another. What does this person think? What do
his or her dreams look like? Artistically I place myself freely within the mind
of anyone I choose, and create a vision based on my interpretation of that person's
thoughts. This "reverse introspection" brings me to where the real battle
lies, within man himself.

FILMS

Time for me is the narrative theme behind my images. Each moment (delete 'in time') is like a story, with a beginning and an end. Time is a mental concept, a means
of categorizing a series of events and assigning them duration; a starting point and a finishing point. Time is also heavily influenced by context. Five minutes in New York
City is not five minutes in the country. Based upon this I have selected
certain images which defy the incidental moment(delete comma) and illustrate what happened before, during and after the subject event. I treat film with the same set of parameters that I apply to my still art. The "moment" of a still
photograph is stretched a little further, both forward and back, giving it an extended life span. I find this exciting inthat it examines the concept of the temporal moment itself, begging the question: "What doesit Mean?"