Nicholas Sinclair (born 1954) is a British portrait and landscape photographer. His work has been published in a number of books of his own, exhibited eight times at the National Portrait Gallery in London. The art is held in the permanent collections there and in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. In 2003, he was made a Hasselblad Master.
Sinclair was born in London. He studied fine art at Newcastle University.
His career as a photographer began in 1982 with a series of photographs taken in the circus which were first exhibited in 1983 at the University of Sussex and subsequently published in the British Journal of Photography.
He is known principally as a portrait photographer, his subjects include Anthony Caro, Frank Auerbach, John Piper and Paula Rego. He has edited two books about the Welsh artist Kyffin Williams and made portraits of him.
Sinclair also makes landscape photographs. He has made two books, one on European cities and the other on a lake.
Sinclair now lives between the cities of Brighton, England, and Berlin, Germany.
In 2003, he won the Hasselblad Masters Award.
His work has been exhibited eight times at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Sinclair's work is held in these permanent collections: