.........ABOUT JOHN E.COLI NIKOLAI:

John E. Coli Nikolai was not born with a camera attached to his face but had to have one surgically removed from it when a butter-fingered tourist dropped one from a tall building in New York, screamed, and caught the attention of Nikolai, who was walking underneath. Nikolai's photography appears in books from a diversity of authors that include Noam Chomsky and Dee Dee Ramone, CDs (primarily punk bands who forgot to pay him), and in the pages or webpages of publications including Rolling Stone, Flipside, New Scientist, Muy Interesante, The Village Voice, The Boston Phoenix, Cleveland's Scene, Discover magazine and PUNK magazine, among others. He has provided press photos for such wonderful bands as Stiff Little Fingers, Public Enemy and The Damned and various revolutionary scientists. He has spent what feels like the last 85 years working on a book called NEVERMIND NOSTALGIA: The Last Book On Punk Rock (Part One), which has provided him with endless migraines as well as the subject matter for his two June/July 2004 photo exhibitions in Cambridge, MA. He exhibits his work frequently and is never ever unhappy but admits to feeling "some guilt" over what happened to Baby Gonquin although is quick to point out that he was never convicted in relation to that tragic incident. He resides in Providence, Rhode Island with his cats Bela Lugosi (pictured below) and Ouzo and his baby lycanthrope, Orzo.

Portrait of the artist as a young corpse, Paris, '89