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Born in the UK, Robin Nichols has always had a great love for recording the world with a camera. After finishing school, he studied Fine Art, before moving to Nottingham Trent University where he attained a degree in creative photography.

He subsequently worked in the advertising industry for several years, before emigrating to Australia in 1985. Robin has always worked in photography: as a black-and-white printer, a cameraman, a stock photographer, and as a freelance photographer.

In the 1990s, Robin contributed to several publications in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the UK. This led to a full-time position as the editor of the Sydney-based Commercial Photography magazine, and later, Australian Photography magazine, a post that he held for five years.

In 1997, he founded the critically acclaimed Digital Photography and Design magazine. During this period, he also wrote books for Focal Press and Octopus Press, lectured at seminars in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane, as well as in Seattle and Chicago, and ran highly successful photographic workshops in Dubai for seven years.

In 2000, he started his own publishing business, launching Australia's best-selling specialist photo publication: Better Digital Magazine. With this, he pursued his goal of producing clear, well-illustrated information written in jargon-free English. As a publisher during this period, Robin has been lucky enough to interview some of the biggest names in photography: Elliott Erwitt, David Doubilet, Joe McNally, Gregory Heisler, David Hobby, and even jazz legend Don Burrows on one occasion.

Both magazines ran for more than 10 years but, as distribution and paper costs spiralled, and access to free information on the internet exploded, he made the move into teaching. Robin now concentrates on teaching everything photographic, locally through Sydney University's Centre for Continuing Education, and through several online institutions including Udemy, Skillshare, and Eduonix. When not writing or teaching locally, Robin plans, organizes, and conducts specialist small group photographic tours to photo-centric locations such as South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Oman, Ethiopia, Japan, Iceland, Bali, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, and Cuba.