Nicola Goode, born and raised in Los Angeles received her BFA in fine art photography from Yale University.  For over 20 years she has documented street life   and youth culture around the world.  A member of the Society of Motion picture Still Photographers and the Cinematographer’s Guild, she works on numerous feature films, television projects and documentaries.  Her work has been published in magazines and books and exhibited widely.  She collaborated with author Hillary Carlip on the groundbreaking book ‘Girl Power’, published by Time Warner which documented American teen culture.  She worked with celebrated writer David Ritz on ‘Messengers’, portraits of African American ministers and gospel singers published by Random House in 2006.  She is currently photographing the L.A. transgender community and teaching photo workshops to youth at risk.  When she is not elsewhere, Nicola can be found in Venice, California with her husband Sean and son Dylan.