Dean Nixon is a fine-art documentary photographer. Born and educated in New Zealand. Based in Leipzig, Germany, since 1998, he works on his own projects for exhibition and publication.

The central theme throughout his photographic career is the paradoxical relationship between truth, reality and perception. He examines this by application of the tenets of classical documentary photographic tradition, and from time to time, by reversing our viewpoint through experimental imagery, attempts to re-examine the way we perceive and perhaps distort these issues.

What is Documentary Photography?" by Ken Light

DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY may best be defined as long-term, in-depth
photographic projects driven by the passionate concern of the imagemaker. It
is a style as well as an approach to imagemaking. It has an emotion and
concern that stands outside the journalistic idea of being impartial, a
concern that is photographic but also political and social. It is
characterized by photographers taking a partisan stand, not just as a visual
observer; by photographs that tell stories but at the same time take us
closer to the human condition, revealing a deep connection to the human
spirit.

Documentary photography most often means a commitment of months and years of
seeing, listening and connecting to the subject and community in which one
works. It is work strongly tied to the craft of photography, the use of
composition, tonality and the finely crafted print to draw the viewer deeper
into the world of the subject as well as into the ideas, concern and vision
of the photographer. The documentary photographer can become master of the
complete process of photographic imaging, from the vision of the project to
the shooting, editing and presentation of the final body of images.

 Read more about this at Ken Light´s informative site  (http://yourwall.com)