Nicolas Cortes, is a French photojournalist, working for French and international media outlets since 2017.
In 2019, he travelled to Ramallah in the occupied Palestinian territories to continue his research into the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. He focused his efforts on the Masafer Yatta region in the south of the West Bank. He accompanied journalist Eliott Brachet to Sudan to report on the exodus of Ethiopians fleeing war and massacres in the Tigray region. In 2021, he travelled to the Brazilian Amazon to document the plight of the Huni Kuin indigenous people of Caucho, who are victims of deforestation. In 2022, he travelled to Ukraine with journalist Inès Gil to cover the start of the war.
In 2023, he and two journalist friends decided to travel across America. Travelling from Texas to Dakota, they painted a portrait of a lesser-known America in the year leading up to the presidential elections. It was after this trip that he decided to specialise in documentary photography.
After gaining several years of experience in various conflict zones and regions around the world, he frequently returned to Masafer Yatta in 2024 to continue his personal project, focusing on the forced displacement of the Palestinian population in the West Bank. Meanwhile, he left to cover the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria.
