Nick Turpin (1969) is a British street photographer and advertising and design photographer. Turpin was born in London and is based there and near Lyon, France. He established the first international collective of street photographers,In-Public, in 2000. Turpin's work has been published in his own book, On The Night Bus (2016) and in various survey publications, as well as being included in a number of group exhibitions. He publishes through Nick Turpin Publishing, makes short films, and gives workshops on street photography Phil Coomes, writing for BBC News in 2009, considered Turpin "one of the best" street photographers.
Turpin was born and raised in London in 1969. He studied an art and design foundation course at the University of Gloucestershire, specialising in photography; then a BA in photography, film and video at the University of Westminster. Whilst at university he showed his second year photojournalism stories to the picture editor at The Independent and in 1990, aged 20, quit his course to be a press photographer for the newspaper. He left The Independent in 1997 for a career in advertising and design photography that would finance his street photography (for example he photographed the cover of Bridget Jones's Diary (1995) by Helen Fielding).
Turpin established the first international collective of street photographers,In-Public, in 2000 with the intention of bringing together like minded photographers to hold exhibitions, produce books and conduct workshops.Colin Westerbeck, writing in Time in 2011, said Turpin was "notable for having been instrumental in a collaborative documentary project", namely In-Public.
In 2010 he established Nick Turpin Publishing which published the book 10 – 10 Years of In-Public (2010).
Turpin has given talks about and workshops on street photography.