Photo credit: DALTON HERNANDEZ
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Nadia Block (pronounced NAD-JA) is a New York raised artist based on Long Island whose creative journey spans graphic design, painting, photography, and digital art.
For more than two decades, Nadia worked as a graphic designer and art director, creating visual experiences for print and web. That foundation continues to influence her work today through a strong sense of composition, color, storytelling, and digital craftsmanship.
After her design career, she returned to painting, creating commissioned pet portraits and landscapes before shifting her focus to photography in 2014. What began as a creative exploration quickly evolved into an internationally recognized photography career. Nadia became known for her aerial photography of New York City and her distinctive visual perspective on the urban landscape. Her work was featured in the Rizzoli book New York City on Instagram and she partnered with Adobe as part of its Mobile Lightroom campaign.
Photography also became a vehicle for storytelling and social impact. Through collaborations with Nomi Network in India and Watts of Love in the Philippines, Nadia used her lens to document resilience, amplify underrepresented voices, and help share stories that inspire awareness and action.
Throughout her career, Nadia has been drawn to transformation—whether documenting cities from above, telling stories for mission-driven organizations around the world, or reimagining landscapes through layers of photography, digital manipulation, and paint.
More recently, she launched The Wallpaperist, a collection of large-scale mural wallpapers designed for private homes, hospitality environments, and public spaces. The work transforms walls into immersive works of art, turning rooms into gallery-like experiences that invite connection, wonder, and a deeper sense of place.
Today, Nadia’s work is centered on her Psychedelic Series, which represents the convergence of the creative disciplines that have shaped her career. Each piece begins with one of her original photographs and evolves through digital manipulation, abstraction, and hand-painted intervention. Images are transformed in Photoshop, printed on canvas, and finished with layers of watercolor and paint, creating works that exist between photography and painting.
Inspired by nature, water, shifting light, and emotional atmosphere, Nadia’s work is less about documenting a scene than capturing an experience. Through this layered process, familiar landscapes become immersive abstractions that invite viewers to slow down, reflect, and connect with their own memories, emotions, and sense of wonder.
At its core, her work is an exploration of transformation—revealing new possibilities within an image and offering a fresh way of seeing the world.
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Below is an interview of Presco Blog in 2018 :​​​
Nadia Block is an New York/ Brooklyn based photographer whose main purpose is excite
people with her shots and she is really good at that!
I hope you’ll enjoy the interview;
How did you fall in love with photography?
I am an artist. Photography has always been the gateway/ starting point for my paintings.Three years ago I decided to pursue photography as my final art. I think the community that i have since built, contributes to the love I have for photography…
How important is having a unique style as a photographer? How would you describe your style?
As an artist, I have tried to be clear (firstly with myself) that my art/ photography was uniquely me. When I was in college, I struggled in my first drawing class a GREAT deal! My drawings didn’t looked like the others students and that was initially very hard for me. i didn’t feel i fit in or saw the world as others did. I beat myself until I finally realized that my style- with all its flaws- was powerful and interesting in a different way. My teacher at the time helped me to see that my style was maybe more expressive than the students who could draw the model realistically…
It was one of the most important life lessons for me- and allowed me to begin to accept and even appreciate me…
Where did you grow up? How have your roots influenced your sense of style?
I grew up in Brooklyn and NYC. Growing up in NY gave me access to a lot of experiences that formed my style and influenced my growth, at an early age. I think it helped me with my confidence, having had many – let’s call them- interesting encounters at a young age. (smile) I think it made me grow up a bit faster than if i had grown up in a suburb or smaller town…
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What advice would you give to aspiring photographers out there?
I think it’s important to have a community which you learn from and which supports you. One where you can give back to as well. Whether that be a club, through school or social media. I personally love to learn- so whenever i get a new piece of gear – a camera- i’ll take a class.
Have you ever run out of ideas?
Sure, there are days/periods when I feel blocked. I’ll then ask myself if there is a good reason for it- if i should step back and take a break or simply push myself to create, even if i feel blocked.
How do you find places and for your shootings?
Since I tend to not shoot people it would be places. Sometimes a photo friend will suggest we chase something in particular, I will come up with something, or see something on tv, a magazine or on social media that i want to explore…
What’s the one piece of photo gear you couldn’t live without?
My Manfroto tripod for night/long exposures.
Do you edit your photos? If yes, which programs do you use?
I do. In fact, I consider my editing process about 1/2 of my creative process- shooting being the other 1/2. I use Lightroom… I’ll sometimes use the Nik collection as well…
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