Nicola Goode, born and raised in Los Angeles, received her BFA in fine art photography from Yale University.  For nearly 20 years she has been documenting street life and youth culture throughout the U.S, Central America, Europe, Africa and Cuba.  A member of the Society of Motion Picture Still Photographers and the Cinematographer’s Guild she has worked on numerous feature films and documentaries.  Her work has been published in magazines and books and exhibited around the world.  She collaborated with author Hillary Carlip on the groundbreaking book Girl Power, published by Time Warner in 1995, which documented American teen girl culture.  Most recently she worked with celebrated writer David Ritz on Messengers, portraits of African American ministers, published by Random House in 2006.  When she is not elsewhere, Nicola can be found in Venice, California with her husband Sean and son Dylan.