I was nineteen when I landed the best job in the world! I had just come back home to London from holiday in Corsica, where I had shot 10 rolls of Kodachrome, when I saw an ad in the paper wanting a photographer to shoot architecture, landscapes people and pageantry. The Corsica pictures got me the job.

I spent the next 12 years travelling around Britain and Europe and the Middle East, in particular photographing the English cathedrals in great detail, some of the vast interiors taking up to 12 hours to light. I met my wife while working in Canterbury Cathedral.

In 1975 we emigrated to New Zealand with our son and daughter, and I started a quite different career in Wellington as a commercial photographer. In 1979 I co-founded Spectrum, a company that was to become the biggest and busiest photography studio in the country.

Now I prefer to work alone, operating with freelance assistants in my own studio in Wellington. I have had an entirely new drive-in studio built which opened in 2003. It has the most amazing views over the city, the harbour and the mountains.

I won the First Prize in the FINE ART AWARDS of the British Institute of Professional Photography 2005, and a Gold Award in Portfolios.com, and 4 Nominations in the International Color Awards in 2006.

Corporate assignments have taken me to Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, Tokyo, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Zurich, Seville, New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles, Vancouver, and all over Australia and New Zealand.

My stock library includes these places plus the South Pacific, Bangkok, Bali, Sri Lanka, Britain, Germany, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Venice, Madrid, Havana, Buenos Aires, and Chile. Some of this material can be seen at Photonewzealand.com

For other enquires about stock photographs, email me at nick@nickservian.com