ABOUT
Wick is a professional photographer known for his evocative and creative portraits as seen in many magazines, on billboards and on clients' walls. He is based in NYC.
Wick picked up a camera when he was 12 and hasn't put one down. He has a degree from Berkeley/Santa Cruz in Marine Bio where he found daily under water flash photography useful in counting populations of colonial Corynactis californica anemones. He has traveled the world extensively and is comfortable almost anywhere with anybody. He made a 7 year circumnavigation of planet Earth with his wife and kid on a sailboat, has made snow in Sun Valley, has run the Australian Mud Slingers Company, LtD, in Sidney, surfed many of the world's best breaks, windsurfed in the Red Sea, Phuket, Lake Arenal and the Greek Isles, taught at Outward Bound Schools in the Gila, the Sierra, the Colorado Rockies and Baja for several years on and off and was drug up a couple of first ascents on American big walls (Zion and the Black Canyon of the Gunnison) with pals super alpinists Jeff Lowe and Mike Weiss where his belaying and jumarring went unsurpassed.
His pictures have been published on covers, on busses, on book jackets and in many magazines such as Newsweek, Forbes, the Daily Beast, LA Photographer, Architecture, Architectural Digest, Miami Herald, NY Magazine, Penthouse, 32 Degrees, Builder Magazine, Boca Raton Magazine, 944 Magazine, Tinsley Advertising, Lexus of Greenwich, Business Insider, the Strad Magazine, the Whalers' and several New England Inns, the Iowa Review, NM Tourism, Keeper Springs Water, ACAMS, SiTv, NSU, University of Miami Health, Mens Journal, the American Alpine Club amongst many others... and Wick's pictures have festooned billboards, ad campaigns and the walls of many happy clients, as well.
He has won various awards, like the Fuji Award, and he gives talks/slideshows to serious amateurs and working pro photographers on invitational basis. Please contract me.
Real people, with all their imperfections and eccentricities, fascinate him and his portraits aim to tell their stories with empathy, honor and dignity.
He now lives on the Upper West Side with his best girl Tess, a mighty fine nyc portrait and headshot photographer herself, (https://tesssteinkolk.com for a look) and their fine bred Pug (I'd say, save for her countenance, she is indeed a hot blooded Russian wolfhound at heart) Emmy Lou Harris.
