Nik Wheeler started his professional photographic career as
a war photographer for United Press International in
Vietnam, covering major battles such as the Tet Offensive
and the Battle of Hue. After being based for two and one
half years in Saigon he moved to Beirut to freelance
throughout the Middle East, covering the Jordanian Civil War
for Time Magazine and the Yom Kippur War for Newsweek and
shooting assignments for the London Sunday Observer,
Telegraph and National Geographic magazines. His first book
"Return to the Marshes", shot in the Marshes of
Iraq and published by Collins, was an expansion of a
Geographic assignment. In the mid-seventies he relocated to
Paris, under contract for Sipa Press and traveled the world
on diverse photo journalistic assignments-the Coronation of
the King of Nepal, General Franco´s Funeral, the Fall
of Saigon, the Montreal Olympics, the "Thriller in
Manila" and other important news events. It was during
this period that he took his famous picture of
arch-terrorist Carlos at Algiers airport-a photo that was
recently numbered among the 100 most Important Photos of the
20th Century....