Nicole Driscoll is a Charlotte-based photographer and videographer whose work explores themes of identity, memory, and the emotional imprint of personal and collective histories. Her work has been exhibited at The Light Factory, Goodyear Arts, The Curated Fridge, and Click Photo Festival. In 2023, her photograph Hands in the Sky was selected by ArtPop Street Gallery for public display across Charlotte and in Times Square. Driscoll was awarded the Emerging Creators Fellowship in 2024 and has completed residencies at Mudhouse (Crete, Greece) and Walkaway House, where she deepened her exploration of memory and place. Currently, she works as a teaching artist at Studio 345, a free, after-school art program, and as a freelancer in the greater Charlotte community.

My work explores photography as a tool for self-reflection, emotional processing, and connection. I use the camera to document personal experiences, grappling with memory, identity, and vulnerability, in ways that invite viewers to reflect on their own. Through analog techniques like Polaroid emulsion lifts, double exposures, and stereoscopic imagery, I create photographs that feel tactile and intimate, carrying the softness and imperfection of memory itself. These processes allow me to evoke a sense of nostalgia and depth that mirrors the complexity of human experience. I’m especially interested in how emotional residue clings to images, how what’s missing can feel just as present as what’s shown. 


In this particular series, I employ Polaroid transfers to further emphasize the themes of fragmentation and reassembly. By deconstructing and rearranging the images, I invite viewers to piece together the narrative and find connections among the disparate elements.

Photo collages included in the Petite Galerie exhibition. Each unique collage is $100 framed.

Titles correspond with photos above, L to R.

Harvest. 6.5 in x 4.2 in. Polaroid transfer on water color paper. 2025.

Urban Fractures. 6.5 in x 4.2 in. Polaroid transfer on water color paper. 2025

Split Pane. 6.5 in x 4.2 in. Polaroid transfer on water color paper, dried Flower. 2025

Floral Tapestry. 6.5 in x 4.2 in. Polaroid transfer on water color paper. 2025