Nicole Werneck is a Brazilian-American director, cinematographer, and photographer.
Aside from working across the commercial/ editorial landscape, she is also a visual anthropologist. Her practice examines cultural memory, material traditions, and the relationships between people and place, with a particular focus on communities across Latin America and North Africa.
She is currently an artist-in-residence at Mouhit Space in Tunis, developing a 16mm film and photographic project with the women potters of Sejnane, whose traditional pottery-making skills are recognized by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Werneck’s films and photographs have been presented internationally, including at Ethnografilm in Paris, The Bass Museum of Art and Art Basel Miami, Monad Gallery in New York, and exhibitions with 4U Group and Artisan Group. Her photographic work Fleeting Frames was published by Bloomsbury Publishing in Extremity and the Future. She is a recipient of the FIU SIPA FLAS Fellowship and is pursuing doctoral studies in anthropology, with research centered on visual methods, material culture, and documentary practice.
CONTACT: NIKKI@HIDDENINSILVER.CO