Nicholas Ganz

Nicholas Ganz is a freelance photographer and author based in Essen, Germany. He has documented graffiti and street art throughout the world for more than 15 years and released two books on this subject.

In 2004 his first book “Graffiti World – Street Art from five continents”, a survey on this international movement, was first published by Thames & Hudson and also released in 12 translated co-editions. A new version of this book will be released in May 2009.

His second book “Graffiti Woman” was released in 2006, also first released by Thames & Hudson and published in 5 translated co-editions.

During the last years, he was working on the human rights situation in Burma and has travelled this country and neighbouring Thailand on several occasions.
As a result, together with co-author Elena Jotow the collaborated book “Burma – the alternative guide” will be released in April 2009 by Thames & Hudson.

Recently he has travelled to Nepal to document the country’s social situation and the situation of Exile-Tibetans in Nepal.