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After Makers — A Conversation With Photographer & Researcher Nikki Price
- Michi Masumi BA.MA
- 3 hours ago
- 3 min read
Nikki Price is a Medway‑based photographer, researcher, creative tutor, and final‑year PhD candidate. Her practice sits within death studies and visual sociology, focusing on photography, family stories, estrangement, and experiences after death. Working between research and lived experience, she uses creative and visual methods to explore how meaning is made through images and personal objects.
Her work centres on everyday materials of memory, including photographs, domestic spaces, and belongings left behind. She is interested in how these items become curatorial tools within families, shaping grief, identity, and relationships over time. Absence, silence, and fragmentation are central themes, reflecting the complexities of loss and disrupted connection.
Through photography and practice‑led research, Nikki examines how stories are preserved, altered, or withheld, and how people live with the afterlife of relationships. Her work is attentive, reflective, and grounded in care, offering considered ways to engage with memory, loss, and connection through visual storytelling.
INTRODUCTION:
My creative journey as a photographer after the deaths of my nan, grandad, and dad is at the core of my PhD research. Join me as I share how photography, photo elicitation, and creative non-fiction writing have held space for reflection and connection in those times.
F/11: Questions to Understand the Photographer’s Landscape:
1. Share one unedited frame from your current project – and tell us why you almost threw it away.
That’s a difficult one for me. Some I tend to keep everything, as I know how precious photos can be, such as those out of focus found in an old album. Some of these are the most cherished I have.
2. If your main piece of kit could talk during a shoot, what would it complain about most?
Probably my Canon 6D; she’s not had much use recently due to my writing!
3. What’s the most “uncinematic” or “unphotogenic” place in Medway that you made look brilliant?
My photography encompasses the everyday little things that others may not notice, and Medway has this in abundance!
4. Describe a moment when a shot didn’t go to plan—but the mistake became your favourite part.
That’s the beauty of photography and being creative; I go with the flow in what I am presented with; even the rain can be beautiful.
5. What’s one piece of direction you gave (to a subject or yourself) that felt silly but worked?
I have learned over the years to be more playful with my photography, with some great advice from a mentor. We can get tied up in the technicalities of taking ‘good’ photographs that, we can sometimes miss the fun.
6. Name a technical “rule” you broke on your favourite image or scene.
Taking photos in bright sunlight was a challenge, but I made it work.
7. If your Medway Lens exhibition piece had a one‑sentence subtitle, what would it be?
As the session title above.
8. What’s the longest you’ve waited for a single shot, and was it worth it?
I use a film camera sometimes, and that makes me more conscious about what I want to take photos of.
9. During this Medway Lens programme, whose work made you think, “I wish I’d shot that”—and what did you learn?
I’m looking forward to seeing the wonderful programme of Medway Lens this year, in the vibrant and abundant creatives that live and create in Medway.
10. What’s one link you want every Medway Lens visitor to click—and why?
My Instagram is the social media I update the most often.
11. If you could change one thing in the world, what would it be?
That’s a big question! Relating to photography and creativity in general, like I always say to my students, find something you love and keep at it no matter what.
🌐 Online Event
Nikki’s online session, After Makers, is part of the MKL 2026 programme, and tickets are completely free — but booking is essential. If her f/11 interview has sparked your curiosity, or if you’re drawn to thoughtful conversations about memory, loss, creativity, and the everyday materials that shape our stories, this is an event you won’t want to miss. Join Nikki online for an hour of reflection, insight, and gentle honesty as she shares the creative journey behind her research. Secure your free place now and be part of this year’s Medway Lens celebration of photography, film, and visual storytelling.
RESEARCH ARTICLE:
Nikki's recent publication in the Mortality Journal, which promotes the interdisciplinary study of death and dying, is available to view here: ‘What’s in the Weetabix tin?’: Exploring two curatorial roles after a death, preceded by estrangement' https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2026.2656629
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