A Buddhist monk, Nicholas Vreeland or “Nicky” is also a photographer.
“His shots in Lafite express the gentle gaze of a peaceful soul.”
He photographed the Dalai Lama in the United States in 1979. During a trip to Dharamsala with a “camera” whose primary purpose was to make portraits of “holy men,” he manifested the desire to become a monk and was ordained in the 1990s.