Born and raised in Nebraska, Nick Heavican didn’t have formal training and considers himself self-taught.  Upon moving to New York, Brooklyn specifically, he worked in a lab, camera shop and a few studios before graduating to assistant work.  Peter Beard’s images of Africa is what made him know that he wanted to be a photographer, but it is Helmut Newton’s work that inspires him every day. 

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