Nicolai Fuglsig, born 1972, started his photographic carrier at the age of 16 at a local Danish newspaper.

In 1994 he entered the Danish School of Journalism in Denmark, where he attended the four year education as a photojournalist.His graduate project, a press book entitled Muslumovo, won widespread international acclaim and was also awarded a prize for the best overseas photojournalistic work by the largest Danish Newspaper, Jyllands Posten.
Subsequently Nicolai Fuglsig received the World Press Photo 1999 1st Prize in the category “Nature and Environment Stories” for the Muslumovo Story and was given the ICP Infinity Award by the International Center of Photography, New York and the Kodak Young Photograher Award. Continuing his development as a photographer and visual story teller Nicolai Fuglsig began experimenting with video and soon came to realize that moving pictures hit a nerve in him.
Whilst on assignment for a Danish newspaper in Kosovo, he bought a digital video camera from an airport and recorded the events he witnessed, which resulted in the documentary film “Return of the Exiled” which was aired both on Danish National Television and Danish Cinema. Film took Fuglsig deep into the heart of war-torn Kosovo, following the exile of numerous ethnic Albanian families from their homes to refugee camps. Scenes of human tragedy (both on film and stills) are interlaced with nightvision and street-to-street footage leading up to the anguished return of the exiles to their ruined homes and dead brethren. Soon after this, he was one of a small number of directors chosen by Levi’s to make short films.
His film on Voodoo is an extraordinary insight into the world of voodoo. Filmed in Haiti, it is not for the faint hearted, but its combination of extraordinary images and ability to tell a story make for a fantastic journey into an unknown world.

In 2002 he was chosen for the Saatchi & Saatchi “Hottest New Directors Showcase” at the Cannes Advertising Festival. He more recently won a Silver Arrow at the BTAA awards, and two D&AD Awards in London for Audi “Bull”.
Fuglsig has succesfully transferred the strong visual style of his still photography into living pictures with commercials and documentaries. Fuglsig is currently devoting himself to the motion picture realm, directing music videos and spots for The Dansih Red Cross and Politiken.