About

Nicholas van der Wal is a documentary photographer from Massachusetts. Throughout his life, van der Wal has dedicated the majority of his spare time in the outdoors which has led to a passion of backpacking, cycling, and sailing. Additionally, as a child, van der Wal's family would make weekly visits to their local dairy farm to purchase their dairy products directly from the farmer. This experience has allowed van der Wal to personally witness the cycle of life on the farm as well as the cycle of production and the political and economic implications inherent in the business of farming.  His passion for the natural world in tandem with his connection to agriculture has led van der Wal to focus his photographic efforts on environmental issues such as consumption, pollution, and society's use of land. 

Professional Experience

Ocean State Job Lot - Assistant Photographer, May 2021-Present

Education

Lesley Art + Design - BFA in Photography. Minor in Entrepreneurship, 2020

Publications

  • RI Monthly

    • 2020 December Issue: City State: Out Takes

Exhibitions 

  • Interrupt - Gravedigger’s Daughter Gallery

    • November 2021

  • Lesley Art + Design Thesis Exhibition

    • April 2020

  • Tomorow’s Tomorrow - Gallery South, Cambridge MA

    • Juried by CJ Heyliger

    • April 2020

  • Hands - re-direct gallery

    • April 2020

  • What We’ve Found-Mass Production - Aint-Bad

    • April 2020

  • The 2020 Self-Quarantining Exhibtion - Lenscratch

    • April 2020

    Undergraduate Photography NOW VIII - Hosted Online by AREA Gallery 

    • Juried by Greer Muldowney and Gorden Wilkins

    • March 2020 

  • Double Vision - Gallery South, Cambridge MA

    • February 2020

  • Documenting Life: Mexico - Centro Fotográfico Álvarez Bravo, Oaxaca, Mexico 

    • January 2020

  • & MORE - Gallery South, Cambridge MA

    • November 2019

  • Output - Gallery South, Cambridge MA

    • Juried by Justin Kaneps

    • October 2019

  • Free Range - Gallery South, Cambridge MA

    • Septmeber 2019

  • PRC Student Show - Photographic Resourse Center, Cambridge MA

    • April 2019

  • LA+D Pop Up - Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge MA

    • April 2019

  • Undergraudate Photography NOW VII - Photographic Resource Center, Cambridge MA

    • Juried by Greer Muldowney and Gorden Wilkins

    • March 2019

  • Gesture - Gallery South, Cambridge MA

    • February 2019