Nika Sandler
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| Known for | Works exploring the human and non-human gaze, gender, pleasure, and the aesthetics of the uncanny and the abject |
| Movement | Contemporary art |
Nika Sandler is a contemporary artist working with photography and text. Her work has been described in international publications such as and Dazed as addressing themes of the human and non-human gaze, gender, pleasure, and the aesthetics of the uncanny and the abject.
Career
Sandler received her training at the Docdocdoc School of Contemporary Photography, where she completed Feodora Kaplan's Experiments in Contemporary Photography course. Following her studies, her work has appeared in international publications including i-D,[1] Dazed,[2] PhotoVogue,[3][4] Harper's BAZAAR,[5] Libération,[6] Unthinking Photography[7], , Konbini [fr],[8][9] Fisheye [fr],,[10][11] Calvert Journal,[12] Público,[13] Metal Magazine,[14][15] L'Œil de la photographie [fr],[,[16] Float Magazine,[17] and Bad to the Bone.[18]
In 2023, Sandler won the "Posthuman Postphotography" category at the Small File Photo Festival, organized by The Photographers' Gallery in London.[19][7]
Artistic practice
Sandler's projects often combine photography with conceptual narratives, a method discussed in several interviews and articles about her work.[9][14] Her works include:
- The World of Hedonia: A series described by Konbini as exploring "the tyranny of pleasure in late capitalism".[9][14]
- 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, as noted in related interviews and essays.[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 speculative visual exploration of extinct marine life and its resonance with contemporary ecological crises.[16]
Critical reception
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 discussed in academic research. In The Image at the End of the World (2025), Marloes de Valk analyses Sandler's work in the context of artistic communities rethinking technology in the Anthropocene.[20]
References
- ↑ "The World of Hedonia". i-D. 2022. Archived from the original on 2 October 2022.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "This uncanny photo series explores the feline gaze". Dazed. 2023.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "My Nonhuman Friends". PhotoVogue. 2024.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "A History of Teeth". PhotoVogue. 2025.
- ↑ "Interview with Nika Sandler". Harper's Bazaar. 2025.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "My Nonhuman Friends". Libération. 2023.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Nika, Sandler; Alexander, Mikhaylov (2024). "Immersion in nonhuman worlds". Unthinking Photography.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 "Le plaisir et la douleur, la vie et la mort…". Konbini. 2025.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 "Sous l'emprise de calmants…". Konbini. 2024.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Coup de coeur – Nika Sandler". Fisheye Magazine. 2024.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 "Nika Sandler: amitié et boules de poils". Fisheye Magazine. 2024.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Cat person: photographing feline love". The Calvert Journal. 2022.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 "Sol negro paira autocracias". Público. 2023.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 "Interview: Nika Sandler on The World of Hedonia". Metal Magazine. 2022.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 "Interview: A History of Teeth". Metal Magazine. 2025.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 "Nika Sandler". L'Oeil de la Photographie. 2025.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 "Nika Sandler: Mycophilia". Float Magazine. 2023.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 "Plant and Human Pain". Bad to the Bone. 2022.
- ↑ "Small File Photo Festival Award Ceremony". The Photographers' Gallery. The Photographers' Gallery. 28 January 2023. Retrieved 7 December 2025.
- ↑ de Valk, Marloes (2025). The Image at the End of the World (PhD). London South Bank University.
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