Christopher Nunn

Christopher Nunn
Born1983 (1983)
Huddersfield, England
EducationBradford College
OccupationSocial documentary photographer
Websitewww.christophernunn.co.uk

Christopher Nunn (born 1983) 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.

Life and work

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

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

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.

Publications

Booklets, zines and newspapers by Nunn

The Information Front

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

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). Archived from the original on August 9, 2014. 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.