Nic Walker spent his early years in Cairo and Beijing with his father Tony Walker, a foreign correspondent. After working in marketing, he began his photographic practice at age 23 studying commercial photography at the Canberra Institute of Technology. He moved to Sydney where he started working at the Australian Financial Review, first as a picture researcher and then as a Fairfax Media staff photographer for eleven years. Walker has photographed portraits, cover stories, news and features for the Australian Financial Review Magazine, Good Weekend, Sunday Life, Spectrum, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, Der Spiegel (Germany) and Entertainment Weekly (US). His photographic subjects have included prime ministers, business people, artists, musicians and actors. Now a freelance photographer, Walker has won a number of photographic prizes including two coveted Walkley awards. In 2017 he was a finalist in the NPG's National Portrait Prize for his photographic portrait of Australian fashion designer Alex Perry.
