Nick Pedersen - USA
Migration is a hauntingly beautiful series by multimedia artist and illustrator Nick Pedersen.
This body of work was created as a response to the increasing issues of urban sprawl and deforestation that are destroying wild spaces and displacing animals from their natural habitats.
My images show a series of animals navigating through the ruins of industrial society in search of their missing homes.
Nick Pedersen is a photographer and digital artist based in Salt Lake City, Utah.
He holds a BFA degree in Photography, as well as an MFA degree in Digital Arts from Pratt Institute in New York, where he graduated with distinction.
He has shown artwork in galleries across the country and internationally, recently including the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, the Main Line Art Center, Paradigm Gallery, and Arch Enemy Arts.
He has published two artist books featuring his long term personal projects Sumeru and Ultima.
Many of his images have been recognized with awards from the Adobe Design Achievement Awards, and the Photoshop Guru Awards.
His work has been featured in numerous publications such as After Capture, Beautiful Decay, Juxtapoz, Hi-Fructose, and Empty Kingdom. In the past few years he has also completed Artist Residencies at the Banff Center in Alberta, Canada and the Gullkistan Residency in Iceland.