Bio
Nick Didlick is a Vancouver, Canada-based commercial/editorial photographer and digital imaging consultant. His extensive career in photojournalism and photography has spanned over four decades, two continents, and over 65 countries, holding staff photographer positions at United Press Canada (UPI), Reuters, the Vancouver Sun, and the National Post. He has twice been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and is a National Newspaper Award-winning photographer. Most recently, he won the Gold Medal in the 2025 World Photographic Cup for Sports Photography.
While at the Vancouver Sun, he served as both photographer and Director of Photography and led the photo department’s successful switch from film to all-digital photography in 1994. He left newspapers to run his Photography, Videography and Consulting Company. He is a widely sought-after speaker on digital imaging workflow and works for several editorial/commercial photography and videography clients, serving as a Digital Imaging Consultant. On the consulting side, he has worked for the International Olympic Committee on their Young Reporters Program as well as companies such as Kodak, Blue Pixel, Nikon USA and Sony, focusing on future applications, cameras, and networking solutions.
“To be chosen to represent Canada from all the talented photographers here is a distinct honour.”
2026 – Sports
I was covering the Hawaiian Golf Open, and on a free day, I went to the Banzai Pipeline, on O’ahu’s North Shore, to cover the Pipe Pro surfing competition. After the competition, the light began to change for the better, and I continued photographing surfers until after sunset as they chased the breaking waves down the shore. For me, photography has always been about pushing the boundaries of what we can capture under challenging conditions.
2025 – Reportage / Photojournalism
Best of Nation, World Top 10, Gold Medal
At the Paris 2024 Olympics, I wanted to do more than just straight-up action photos of Olympic athletes and be more artistic in my photo coverage. The new sport of Kayak Cross and the splash down at the Olympic Kayaking venue made for some unique photo opportunities.