Nabil Elderkin

Nabil Elderkin (* in Chicago, Illinois, USA) is an Australian professional photographer and director of video and movies.

Life

At the age of two years Elderkin went with his family, an American father and a mother from Iran to Port Macquarie, New South Wales in Australia. There he went to high school, business and sports was an avid surfer. His first contact with photography began with his photographs of the surfing scene in Australia.

The family broke up in the early 1990s and Nabil followed his mother to Chicago, where he started a photography degree. In the following years he photographed musical groups, musical concerts and performances by DJs from Chicago. He came with rapper Kanye West in contact, which is very close to this day. The two published a book about West's Glow in the Dark Tour in 2008.

Since 2005, Elderkin has almost twenty Director out at music videos of various bands and singers. In 2007 he went to the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The resulting photo exhibition was held at the UN headquarters on the East River in Manhattan, New York City, 2007. His first, funded by the company Red Bull documentary Bouncing Cats was born in 2009 in Kampala in Uganda and shows how young people there trying to make a living as a break dancer. His clients include Coca Cola, Foot Locker, Nike, adidas and vans, as well as Oxfam.

Elderkin lives and works today (2014) in Los Angeles.

Awards

  • The Fim Bouncing Cats was awarded in 2010 to three Documentary Festival.

Videography (selection)

  • The Black Eyed Peas Like That, 2005
  • The Black Eyed Peas Mas Que Nada, 2006
  • Kanye West with Mr Hudson and Rihanna as a guest, Paranoid, 2009
  • Kanye West Welcome to Heartbreak. 2009
  • Kanye West Coldest Winter. 2010
  • Monkey Business, Ike did, 2005

Filmography

  • 2009: Bouncing Cats, Documentary

Bibliography

  • Kanye West (Text): Glow in The Dark. Book and CD, Rizzoli, New York 2009, ISBN 978-0-8478-3240-8.
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