LOVE DEEPLY, LOVE FIERCELY.
This is my philosophy — and it didn't come easy.
I spent most of my life uncomfortable with how deeply I feel and connect with the world around me. Photography taught me that was never the problem. It was always the point.
I'm a Queens native, recently back in New York after calling Hawaiʻi home for a few years.
At twelve I decided to become a forensic scientist, drawn to it because it sat exactly between my love of science and my need to make sense of human experience. That instinct never left. It just evolved.
Today I work as a documentary photographer and filmmaker, using the same forensic attention to find what's real in a frame. The overlooked detail, the unguarded moment, the light that changes everything.
I shoot on film and digital. I make photo series, documentary films, and still images for film sets, couples and families, artists, and brands who want something that feels like a memory rather than a production.
— Nimmi Thomas