Nrm Studio

NICK RAY MCCANN is an award-winning director based in Los Angeles and New York City. He is also currently a creative director at Netflix and executive producer of Cattivo Films & Music. When not working on set he can be found photographing various personal projects and recording music under the project The Bigst Hands.

His early work chronicled the scrappy Baltimore music scene, gritty and humorous images of performers, and the audience, enveloped in the moment.

After attending Syracuse University, Nick began work as a photographer’s assistant to National Geographic photographer Stephen Wilkes, Nick lived in Asia and travel through much of Europe and the states all while building his own body of photography work centered around travel and music.

While working as a music photographer Nick would be on tour with Gwar, soaked in fake blood on a nightly basis, on stage with Kendrick Lamar during the annual festival circuit, and everywhere in between.

"I tend to break down my photography work into two categories; the awe and majesty of the natural world, and the surreal dark comedy of humanity. Since I was a child I would turn to people to laugh, and to the earth to feel whole. The textures of an old tree or cliffside could answer a...

Syracuse University
BSA Visual and Interactive Communications with a Geography and American History minor

2015 - Smashbox Charity Gallery Show, Los Angeles, CA.
2020 - BAM Never Records, Jan 31-Mar 15, Brooklyn, NY.