Nik Wheeler - Photography
Photography
Website Description
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.
