About

Buenos Aires born, Sydney raised, Melbourne based

Diego De Nicola was born in Buenos Aires and raised in Sydney from infancy, the son of a father who ran a creative production studio through the seventies and eighties. That early immersion in image-making left its mark — as a teenager Diego was collecting photography books and postcards not for their subjects but for what the photographs themselves did with light, grain and composition.

A Nikon F4 came first. Then Henri Cartier-Bresson and Max Dupain, which changed everything. The decisive moment, the geometry of the street, the way black and white strips a scene down to its essential weight — these became the ideas he has been working with ever since. Garry Winogrand, William Klein and Joel Meyerowitz followed, deepening a visual language that was already forming on the streets of Sydney.

He began shooting film in 1999. In 2005 he moved to Melbourne, spending seven years working between street photography and the darkroom — shooting in both colour and black and white, building what would become a quarter-century archive across film and digital.

His images often focus on the interaction between people and the architectural structures around them — bridges, corridors, escalators, and streets becoming quiet stages where human gestures unfold. The camera, for Diego, is a way of isolating what the eye passes over: a figure caught at 1/125th of a second, silver light on wet stone, the geometry of a city that doesn’t know it’s being watched.

These prints are the first works from that archive offered for sale — limited edition, hand-numbered, signed, and printed to order by Prism Imaging in Melbourne.