James Nader

I’m James Nader, a fashion and fine art photographer — and this channel is where I teach serious photography, not just camera tricks.  
My dad handed me a Pentax S1A in 1977, when I was thirteen, and asked why on earth I wanted to be a bloody photographer. Years later he walked into my studio and handed me back the same camera from the darkest depths of a cupboard. He didn’t realise that old Pentax had started my entire photography career. I did.  
Since then I’ve lived inside fashion photography, portrait photography, and commercial campaigns across twelve countries — from the Lambertz “Goddesses of Europe” calendar with Dita Von Teese and Petra Němcová to a glacier shoot in Iceland with Nena.  
Here you’ll learn photography the way working photographers actually use it: visual thinking, composition, light, directing people, and making images that carry weight. It’s also where I open up NVOS and TRIOME