About.

Liepins is currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area and available to travel.


I'm a proudly Minnesotan photographer, cinematographer, and producer specializing in a documentary approach to storytelling.


With more than a half-decade background in photojournalism, I strive to tell every story I'm trusted with as authentically as possible.


Liepins co-founded and runs the creative production studio Ethography and holds a B.A. in Communication from Stanford University.


e: nikolas@ethography.com

Nikolas Liepins in a white sweater take a photo of himself in the reflection of a dark window that acts as a mirror.
BYLINES

His work has appeared worldwide in the following publications and beyond:



TIME, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, People Magazine, Rolling Stone, ABC News, NBC News, CNN, CBS News, Fox News, New York Post, Al Jazeera, Telemundo, LA Times, Good Morning America, Forbes, Fortune, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Fast Company, The Guardian (UK), The Irish Examiner (Ireland), The Daily Mail (UK), Harper's Bazaar, E! Online, Huffington Post, Axios, Buzzfeed, Bleacher Report, Stanford Magazine, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Deseret News, Yonhap News Agency (South Korea), Le Nouvel Obs (France).


Clients

Editorial clients include: Shutterstock Editorial, The Associated Press, Anadolu Agency syndicated via Getty Images. European Pressphoto Agency


Individual and enterprise clients are maintained through his studio Ethography and include Meet Minneapolis and various divisions of Stanford University.


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