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Niko Guido was born in Istanbul. He graduated from Galatasaray High School and then the Engineering Faculty of Bogaziçi University. He worked in the tourism sector for many years and thereafter chose to make his living as a photographer. Photographs of Niko Guido, who has held exhibitions in more than forty cities both in Turkey and around the world, have appeared in many national and foreign magazines and newspapers. His success in nude art photography earned him respect in the eyes of the international photographic community. The book “Nude Art Today”, published in France and accepted as an important reference in nude photography, painting and sculpture by the international art community, devoted two pages to Niko Guido in its 2008-2009 edition. Niko Guido, who carried out the photography project “Unobstructed Laughter” in support of the Spinal Cord Paralytics Association of Turkey in 2008, photographed South America from top to bottom in 2009. Thereafter he carried out projects in Haiti, Cuba, Japan, Myanmar, India, Morocco, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and The Philippines. Photographs he took on these trips were published in many magazines most notably National Geographic. Guido, who worked with Unicef in his Haiti Project, also held an exhibition called “Support for Van” again with Unicef by gathering together 30 masters of photography. Guido, whose photographs were exhibited in 32 different cities of the world at the same time within the context of the projects “Doctors without Borders” and “Leave Us Alone”, on the tenth anniversary of the Iraq War, thus delivered the largest photography exhibition of the world. Niko Guido, founder of The Contemporary Photographers Community, held an exhibition called “Artist as an Art Object” for the benefit of The Turkish Education Foundation in January 2014. He has directed a documentary film on the earthquake in Haiti. He has been pursuing his projects “14 Cities”, “I’m Istanbul” and “From Woman’s Eyes” (‘kadıNgözÜyle’) with the participation of hundreds of photographers. Niko Guido, who was awarded the jury’s special award in the “Fiap World Cup” in 2013, one of the most prestigious photography awards of the world, has also been preparing a television program called the “Photography Traveler” and still travels around the world with his projects group the “Photography Travelers”.