A woman with long brown hair, wearing a white quilted sweater and layered gold necklaces, sitting indoors with a neutral expression, in front of a window showing a cloudy sky.


Nicola Dracoulis is an Australian portrait and social documentary photographer

Drawn to focusing on emergent generations, addressing issues of representation, celebrating the subtleties of the human experience and the richness of life, she has ongoing long-term projects in Cuba, UK, Brazil and Australia.

Nicola has been a finalist in a number of awards including the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2016, the Lucie/APA Scholarship 2014, the Lucie Emerging Scholarship 2015, 7th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards 2015 and was a semi-finalist in the Head On Portrait Prize 2016.