Nisian Hughes was born and grew up in New York City in 1977. He attended the United Nations International school and graduated with an International Baccalaureate. Then deciding to attend art Collage he went to Parsons School of Design in NY. Upon receiving a BFA in Communication Design from there, he decided to move to France for 3 years to serve as the Art Director at Double Magazine In Paris. Nisian then returned to New York to work in advertising. He freelanced for various agencies such as Ogilvy and Mather and Hill Holliday before became Art Director at Mikco advertising agency. Here he worked on a multiple Korean fashion brands. Throughout Nisian’s 10 years as art director he always had a strong passion for photography and video, consistently shooting as much as he could. For his first big photo job he traveled the world photographing and videoing the Icelandic singer, songwriter Bjork’s Greatest Hits World Tour. Since then Nisian has maintained a high paced career having photographed and directed video commissions for Hermes, Converse, Octane, Agnes b., Pier 59, Kiki De Montparnasse, Improvd, Century 21, Sponge Skincare, Barneys, among many others. Nisian’s is also working on a photographic book about ballet.