Jeremy Nix | Photographer
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In a culmination of bad decisions, bad relationships, and the ignorance of my youth, I found myself incarcerated in the Denver County Jail on a one year sentence. The feeling of being institutionalized, trapped, and at the end of your rope is something that I will always remember.
I think I was conditioned from a young age to be an angry person. Witnessing my father's temper in my formative years, and developing my own nasty temper during my time in the military give me that predisposition to react to things in an angry or violent way. I struggle to overcome this issue every minute of every day.
If we are honest with ourselves, we should be able to say confidently that we are the center of our own universe. In the end, when everything else is stripped away, it is every man for himself. Survival of the fittest. We are all egotists, just some of us more than others.
In a culmination of bad decisions, bad relationships, and the ignorance of my youth, I found myself incarcerated in the Denver County Jail on a one year sentence. The feeling of being institutionalized, trapped, and at the end of your rope is something that I will always remember.
Self Contemplation
This series of self-portraits began as an exploration into my own thought processes. I often find myself fixated on the events of my past and how they have affected me as a person in the present. Each portrait conveys an emotional state or past transgression that has had a role in influencing who I am as a person today.
The use of black and white is meant to give the series a documentary feel, while the use of layers symbolizes the fractured psyche I perceive in myself. The low key lighting used symbolizes the darker side of my personal contemplation. I am a person who avoids looking in a mirror. Like many of us, I suffer from a lack of confidence and low self-esteem. These portraits are my personal feelings manifested in digital pixels, they are meant to strip away any self-imposed filters and show the viewer the real me.
The topics covered are aspects of my life that I feel I still have issues with. My aversion to organized religion, the way I deal with anger, even the little voice inside my head. The series shows the issues in my life that I still mentally wrestle with each day..
Urban Landscape | Denver, CO
I am proud of the city I was raised in. This series of images is meant to show Denver and its surrounding suburbs in a realistic light. Denver is too diverse and culturally interesting to represent in just 20 photos, but this is my attempt to show Denver unfiltered, in all of its gritty and grimy glory.
In my free time, I enjoy wandering around neighborhoods and alleyways looking for the aspects of the environment that interest me most. I constantly find myself drawn to the remnants of the city I remember growing up in. The colorful historic buildings, the rough looking neighborhoods, the parts of this city that are old enough to still show some character are what interest me.
This set of images reflects my interest in the colors that can be found throughout our city. I grew up walking these streets. When I left home to serve in the military, I quickly realized how special of a place that Denver actually is. I have grown up with this city, and it has changed immensely over the years. This is my attempt to show the Denver that I love through the viewfinder of my camera.