Alonso Nichols is a photographer and intermedia artist. He is the Chief of Photography for Tufts University Communications and Marketing and has spent almost two decades telling visual stories about the Tufts community. His university work has spanned daily campus life, NCAA national championship tournament coverage, and work on climate change and humanitarian issues by alumni and faculty on the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Kenya.
In 2022, Nichols completed an MFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and presented the first phase of his ongoing project, “Gone By The Way of Fat Sam,” an exploration of Smoketown: Louisville, Kentucky’s oldest Black neighborhood built by emancipated enslaved people in the 1860s. This work was included in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts juried exhibition SMFA at Tufts: Archive and Autobiography.
He is a recipient of the 2023 St. Botolph Emerging Visual Artist Fellowship, 2022 Post-graduate Teaching Fellowship in Photography at SMFA, Silver Medal in Photography from the Region I Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, Multicultural Service Award, Tufts University, and other honors. Nichols is bilingual (English and Spanish) with conversational and reading competency in Portuguese.
