John Nelson in 1982 at Robert Abel and Associates. (All images courtesy of John Nelson.) “I was pulled to cinema and movies like a moth to the flame.” —John Nelson Ridley Scott, Giannina Facio and John Nelson at 2018 BAFTA Awards. One foggy night in June, John Nelson was driving near Santa Monica when he spotted a soccer game in the distance. “I pulled over and started taking pictures of the soccer players in the fog, backlit by the lights,” he says. “That’s me with a camera.
