Nicol Hockett specializes in portrait photography with an approach that balances authenticity in studio craft with a refined finishing style to bring out and preserve the beauty of the subject's character. As well as her passion for making portraits, she also creates lens-based, contemporary visual art that is playful and vibrant and inspired by beloved people, places, and things. Her photographs have been published in the Journal of The Royal Photographic Society and Photographer's Forum Annuals and have earned awards and recognition in leading international photographic competitions. She has exhibited work at the National Geographic Museum and in physical and virtual galleries in the United States and Great Britain. Baltimore Center Stage and the Baltimore County Public Library have selected her images to be permanently placed in their public art collections.