Nicola Muirhead is a documentary photographer and visual storyteller from the island of Bermuda. Her practice is anchored in investigating how history informs the present and shapes our current reality.
Her projects are research-led and collaborative, grounded in engagement with individuals and communities. She draws on expert insight and lived experience to authentically narrate stories. Her work includes 'In Brutal Presence', a series on North Kensington’s social housing communities facing displacement through gentrification, and 'Descendants of Summer' (working title), a multi-chaptered exploration of Bermuda’s cultural inheritance, post-colonial legacies, and evolving notions of identity and home.
With a Masters in Documentary Photography and Photojournalism from the University of the Arts London (2017) and a background in International Relations, she freelances in editorial, portrait, and reportage photography, while also working as a visiting lecturer and educator, holding a PGCert in Higher Education (2018).
Nicola is a member of Women Photograph; her work has been published in the BBC, National Geographic, The Smithsonian Magazine, and The Washington Post, and was selected for the New York Times Portfolio Review in 2023. She is the recipient of the 2025 Women Photograph Project Grant and was shortlisted for The Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture for 'Descendants of Summer'.
