Sandy Nicholson is a photographer based in Toronto, Canada.

Sandy's photographs have exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, London, the World Expo, Lisbon, Fotofeis in Scotland, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney and the World Press Photo tour in 2005.

His recent solo exhibitions, Lifts and Suburban Fetish, have toured Australia, the UK, Canada and Eastern Europe.

Sandy's clients include All-Clad Cookwear, Bank of Montreal, Canadian Tire, George Weston Bakeries Inc, Glaxo Smith Kline, Hutchison Communications, Little Tikes, Nickelodeon, Nike, Médecins Sans Frontières, Purolator, Raptors TV, RIM, Sony, Soulpepper Theater Company, Tayco, Toshiba, and Unilever.

Sandy's photographs have has been published in Communication Arts, American Photo, Archive Magazine, Coupe, PDN, Rolling Stone, The Financial Times, New York Magazine, Wired, Forbes, Macleans, Saturday Night Magazine, Time and Toronto Life.

He recently completed his first documentary short film, The Memory Merchant with the National Film Board of Canada.

Second is a photographic survey of people who just learned that they placed second in competitions from ballroom dancing to rodeos. The project is about expectation and failure in the world of modern competitions. Loss and disappointment are the norm for the majority of competitors, even if the time or point score between first and second place are minute.

All the subjects were photographed moments after they had stepped down from
the podium or just after they received news they had placed second.

Lifts is a photo essay shot entirely within lifts. The subjects are photographed without their knowledge or consent while traveling in lifts. The images were made around the world within an 18-month period.

"Nicholson's Lift Photographs are the result of the photographer's literal face-to-face, even on occasion a confrontational encounter with perfect strangers within the confined heterotropic spaced of lifts. These surreptitious colour images have been taken - often furtively - in high-rise office-blocks, airports, museums and such spaces around the world."

- From the Exhibition catalogue, Perfect Strangers, Blair French.

Lifts toured in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Canberra and in the summer of 2002 was exhibited in Tatar Alexander Gallery, Toronto. Lifts was featured in Photo District News in 2002.

Suburban Fetish started as a project in 1995 when Sandy and writer Chris Johnston began documenting the private worlds of sexual fetishism in suburban Melbourne. The resulting exhibition consists of 18 sets of colour portrait prints and text, interspersed with colour surburban landscapes.

Suburban Fetish is a direct document of fetishism as an everyday, integral and non-threatening threat of life in society. It depicts devotees of a hidden and mythologized subculture in the context of their own homes.

Suburban Fetish exhibited as a solo show at the Tatar Alexander Gallery, Toronto, the Broken Hill City Gallery, Australia in 1999, and the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, the Centre for Contemporary Gallery, Melbourne and CAST in Hobart in 1999. It premiered at Fotofeis, Scotland in 1997. In 2001 Suburban Fetish exhibited in Zagreb, Croatia.

Neighbours is a survey of the politics of Australia through its urban landscape.