Nick Fry was a pioneer in the early 1970’s in developing the use of the newly available portable video in communities in London. He discovered video whilst a student at Croydon College of Art. Having worked with sound tape and dreamt of a technology that combined pictures and sound, he discovered a brand new video studio when the college moved to a new building. Excited by its possibilities, he used the money he’d made working in the summer on the M4 near his home in the West Country, to pay his way through another year in college where he worked exclusively with video. His work attracted the interest of the RCA (Royal College of Art). Discovering they had no plans to invest in the new lightweight portable cameras and recorders, he lost interest in studying there. Scraping together the money to buy his own Sony Portapak he found work through Lambeth Social Services developing a video-making project with young school truants. At the same time he started running projects with young people at the Oval House theatre. This led on to him being asked to set up what became the Two Boroughs Video Project for Wandsworth and Lambeth, where he worked for a number of years on community video projects with young people and around local issues such as playspace and housing. He is notable for video recording the resistance of the local community in Lewisham to a National Front march through the Borough, which became the seminal August 13 th Tape, and which has subsequently been used in anti-racist campaigning. Another strand of his work at the Oval House was pioneering the integration of the new video recording and playback technologies in theatrical performance, at one point creating a show with the mime artist Justin Case totally dependent on Justin’s use and reaction to onstage video material. After the Oval Nick developed a two-fold career, alternating between directing/vision mixing multi cameras for the on-stage screens at music performances, working with the likes of Duran Duran, Fleetwood Mac and Tina Turner, and working as cameraman