Christopher Nunn

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Christopher Nunn (born 1983) [1] is a British social documentary and portrait photographer. He had a solo exhibition of his work about the Donbas, Ukraine, at Impressions Gallery in Bradford. [2]

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Life and work

Nunn was born in Huddersfield. He earned a BA in photography at Bradford College. [1]

He makes social documentary and portrait photography. [3] He has spent over a decade making work in Ukraine, predominantly in the Donbas region [4] [5] [6] (he suffered a serious eye injury there after being caught up in a mortar attack). [7] [8] He has also made a long term photographic study of his friend the artist David Blackburn, [9] and made work about a woman called Edith. [10]

Together with Kateryna Radchenko and Donald Weber, Nunn has created a series of newspaper-format publications called The Information Front that collates images by Ukrainian photographers and photojournalists of the war in Ukraine. [11] [12]

Publications

Booklets, zines and newspapers by Nunn

The Information Front

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

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References

  1. 1 2 Smyth, Diane (14 November 2019). "Christopher Nunn's best photograph: a picnic in the shadow of war". The Guardian (Interview). ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2023-02-25.
  2. 1 2 "Snapshot: 'Borderland' by Christopher Nunn". Financial Times. 20 December 2019. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
  3. ↑ "Photographer Spotlight: Christopher Nunn". booooooom.com. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
  4. ↑ Bond, Jessie. "War on Instagram: merging conflict and everyday life in Christopher Nunn's photos of Ukraine". The Calvert Journal. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
  5. ↑ Zhang, Izabela Radwanska. "Space as a witness: The war rooms of Ukraine". British Journal of Photography. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
  6. ↑ "Chris Nunn". CNN (blog). Retrieved 2023-02-25.
  7. ↑ Romanyshyn, Yuliana (3 February 2017). "UK photographer's eyes injured in mortar attack in Avdiyivka - Feb. 03, 2017". Kyiv Post. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
  8. ↑ "A British journalist shelled in Ukraine tells the world he's safe in a three-word tweet". The Independent. 3 February 2017. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
  9. ↑ "Juxtapoz Magazine - Christopher Nunn: Falling into the Day". www.juxtapoz.com. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
  10. ↑ "Edith". GUP Magazine. 20 July 2015. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
  11. ↑ Colberg, Jörg. "The Information Front ensures the war and atrocities taking place in Ukraine are not forgotten". British Journal of Photography. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
  12. ↑ "How Ukrainian photographers captured a year of conflict". Financial Times. 17 February 2023. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
  13. ↑ "Small Shops You Need to Visit". AnOther. 5 December 2014. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
  14. ↑ "Searching for joy in the midst of Ukraine's bloody conflict". Huck Magazine. 2 June 2017. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
  15. ↑ "The Information Front, Volume 2. Ukraine – The Path to Freedom". The Eye of Photography Magazine. 29 December 2022. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
  16. ↑ "'War is not just fighting' recalls photographer of Europe's only live warzone". Bradford Telegraph and Argus. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
  17. ↑ "Youth Rising: Rarely-seen photographs of young people in the UK captured over four decades". Creative Boom. 17 June 2021. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
  18. ↑ "In Pictures: 40 Years of British Youth". AnOther. 26 July 2021. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
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