Lifestyle and Sports photographer + director. Co-founder of GOOD PLANETS a film + photography creative agency.

Behind the immense passion Duncan has for delivering exceptional work for his clients, his big why is to create work that inspires positive social and environmental change – and do it in ways that are as sustainable as possible.

A member of 1% for the Planet, Duncan gives back by donating 1% of his annual sales to environmental non profits.

Duncan’s award winning emotive and dynamic style has seen him create powerful images of the worlds’ best sports women and men – Olympic Gold medalists, World Record Holders, World Cup winners and Super Bowl and Major Champions. With a unique style, top tier global brands like Nike, Under Armour, adidas, New Balance, The NFL, Chicago Bears and The FA regularly trust Duncan to create the visual imagery that tells their story.

From a client and commissioners’ perspectives, he’s been described as the ‘dream ticket’. A master at getting the best results in the highest pressure and time constraint environments, he brings enthusiasm, passion and humility, motivating the team to get the best results together. With a relentless work ethic, he draws from his experience across 1,000’s of shoots to always provide world class creative and innovative solutions.

Empathetic storytelling is also at the heart of Duncan’s work. His first short film, WALI is a beautiful and emotive story about the blind marathon runner Wali Nori, who lost his sight whilst being a translator for allied forces in Afghanistan. The film won best short film in Chicago based film festival Big Teeth Small shorts, and has been shortlisted at multiple international short film festivals in 2020. This approach has also led to him to create campaigns for clients like Sport England (This Girl Can), The Invictus Games, The Red Cross, The Royal British Legion and Scope.

duncan@duncannicholls.co.uk

Website

https://www.duncannicholls.co.uk

Location

151 Hainault Road, Leytonstone Leytonstone, London, LDN E11 1DT, United Kingdom

Opening Hours

Monday

All day

Tuesday

All day

Wednesday

All day

Thursday

All day

Friday

All day

Saturday

All day

Sunday

Closed

Number of people in the organization

Videos

Year Established

2007

Sustainability Goals

We all have a role to play in the fight against climate change and creating a positive future – and we more than offset our flights, using standards set out by The Gold Standard . We invest this money in reforestation and renewable energy projects, and align our choices with what’s important to each client. Where possible, we choose to fly with airlines like Norwegian, whose co2 emissions are 30% lower than the industry average.

We’re conscious of the choices we make during the shoot process, and the impact these can have. Here are some of the ways we approach this:

On shoots we:

Aim for zero single use plastic, with crews always bringing their own reusable coffee cups and water bottles.
Use catering suppliers that don’t use single use plastic, with locally sourced and vegan options preferred.
Minimise food wastage, by donating any unopened leftover food to food banks, homeless shelters or City Harvest.
Ensure our equipment suppliers don’t use any single use plastics for our shoot process.
Minimise printing and waste – e.g. we don’t print call sheets, we use digital PPM books.
Use Nordic countries or Google drive for Cloud Storage.
Use renewable energy supplier Bulb in our editing location.
We also commit to delivering three shoots per year at heavily reduces rates to support campaigns and causes that matter to us.

Sustainability Achievements

Planting of 250+ tree’s in reforestation projects (via onetreeplanted) in 2020.
Shoots created for a number of brands producing sustainable products in environmentally friendly ways.
Zero single use plastic on all photo and video shoots, and the delivery on our sustainability goals listed here.

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Advertising and Marketing, Arts and Crafts