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Nika Sandler is a contemporary artist working with photography, artificial intelligence, and text. Her practice explores themes of human and non-human gaze, gender, pleasure, and the aesthetics of the creepy and the abject.[citation needed]
Career
[edit]Sandler studied at the Docdocdoc School of Contemporary Photography, completing Feodora Kaplan's Experiments in Contemporary Photography course. Since then, her work has been featured in numerous international publications, including i-D[1], Dazed[2], PhotoVogue[3][4], Harper's BAZAAR[5], Libération[6], Unthinking Photography[7], Konbini[8][9], Fisheye Magazine[10][11], The Calvert Journal[12], Público[13], Metal Magazine[14][15], L'Oeil de la Photographie[16], Float Magazine[17], and Bad to the Bone[18].
In 2023, Sandler won the Small File Photo Festival, organized by The Photographers’ Gallery in London.[7]
Artistic practice
[edit]Sandler’s projects often combine photography with conceptual narratives, drawing on philosophy, literature, and science. Her works include:
- The World of Hedonia: A series exploring the tyranny of pleasure in late capitalism.[9][14][1]
- My Nonhuman Friends: A reflection on human–cat relationships through archival photographs, feline perspectives, and personal recollections.[2][6][12][11][3]
- A History of Teeth: An investigation of teeth as emotional and physical archives, linking human experience to bacterial life and machine vision.[8][15][10][4]
- Mycophilia: A project depicting fungi as hospitable, creative beings, contrasting with the conventional associations of decay and death.[17]
- Plant and Human Pain: A visual exploration of the parallels between plant and human suffering.[18]
- The Black Sun: A digital exploration of autocratic states through artefacts captured on Google Street View.[13]
- The Ancient Depths: A collaboration with AI to imagine extinct marine life and reflect on contemporary ecological crises.[16]
Critical reception
[edit]Sandler’s work has been the subject of interviews and critical essays in international outlets. Konbini has described her as exploring the "pleasure and pain, life and death" inherent in bodily metaphors.[8] Dazed highlighted her use of photography to examine feline perspectives and interspecies intimacy.[2] Público presented her series The Black Sun as a meditation on authoritarian regimes.[13]
Her practice has also been studied in academic research. In The Image at the End of the World (2025), Marloes de Valk discusses Sandler’s work in the context of artistic communities rethinking technology in the Anthropocene.[19]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "The World of Hedonia". i-D. 2022. Archived from the original on 2 October 2022.
- ^ a b c "This uncanny photo series explores the feline gaze". Dazed. 2023.
- ^ a b "My Nonhuman Friends". PhotoVogue. 2024.
- ^ a b "A History of Teeth". PhotoVogue. 2025.
- ^ "Interview with Nika Sandler". Harper’s Bazaar. 2025.
- ^ a b "My Nonhuman Friends". Libération. 2023.
- ^ a b Nika, Sandler; Alexander, Mikhaylov (2024). "Immersion in nonhuman worlds". Unthinking Photography.
- ^ a b c "Le plaisir et la douleur, la vie et la mort…". Konbini. 2025.
- ^ a b "Sous l'emprise de calmants…". Konbini. 2024.
- ^ a b "Coup de coeur – Nika Sandler". Fisheye Magazine. 2024.
- ^ a b "Nika Sandler: amitié et boules de poils". Fisheye Magazine. 2024.
- ^ a b "Cat person: photographing feline love". The Calvert Journal. 2022.
- ^ a b c "Sol negro paira autocracias". Público. 2023.
- ^ a b "Interview: Nika Sandler on The World of Hedonia". Metal Magazine. 2022.
- ^ a b "Interview: A History of Teeth". Metal Magazine. 2025.
- ^ a b "Nika Sandler". L’Oeil de la Photographie. 2025.
- ^ a b "Nika Sandler: Mycophilia". Float Magazine. 2023.
- ^ a b "Plant and Human Pain". Bad to the Bone. 2022.
- ^ de Valk, Marloes (2025). The Image at the End of the World (PhD). London South Bank University.
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