Christopher Nunn
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]
Life and work[edit]
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[edit]
Booklets, zines and newspapers by Nunn[edit]
- Kalush. 2013.
- Ukrainian Street Dogs. Leeds: Village, 2014. Zine. Edition of 120 copies.[13]
- Holy Water. Leeds: Village, 2015. Edition of 500 copies.[14]
- Borderland: Stories from Donbas. Essarter, 2019. English, French and Russian text. Newspaper format. Edition of 1000 copies.
The Information Front[edit]
- The Information Front #1: Ukrainian Photographers Witness War in Ukraine. 2022. Newspaper format. Edition of 1500 copies.
- The Information Front #2: Ukraine: The Path to Freedom: a struggle for nationhood through fifty years of photographic history. 2023. Newspaper format.[15]
Exhibitions[edit]
Solo exhibitions[edit]
- Borderlands: Stories of Donbas, Impressions Gallery, Bradford, 2019/20[2][16]
Group exhibitions[edit]
- Youth Rising in the UK 1981–2021, Side Gallery, Newcastle, 2021[17][18]
References[edit]
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b "Snapshot: 'Borderland' by Christopher Nunn". Financial Times. 20 December 2019. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
- ^ "Photographer Spotlight: Christopher Nunn". booooooom.com. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
- ^ Bond, Jessie. "War on Instagram: merging conflict and everyday life in Christopher Nunn's photos of Ukraine". The Calvert Journal. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
- ^ Zhang, Izabela Radwanska. "Space as a witness: The war rooms of Ukraine". British Journal of Photography. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
- ^ "Chris Nunn". CNN (blog). Retrieved 2023-02-25.
- ^ Romanyshyn, Yuliana (3 February 2017). "UK photographer's eyes injured in mortar attack in Avdiyivka - Feb. 03, 2017". Kyiv Post. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Juxtapoz Magazine - Christopher Nunn: Falling into the Day". www.juxtapoz.com. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
- ^ "Edith". GUP Magazine. 20 July 2015. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "How Ukrainian photographers captured a year of conflict". Financial Times. 17 February 2023. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
- ^ "Small Shops You Need to Visit". AnOther. 5 December 2014. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
- ^ "Searching for joy in the midst of Ukraine's bloody conflict". Huck Magazine. 2 June 2017. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
- ^ "The Information Front, Volume 2. Ukraine – The Path to Freedom". The Eye of Photography Magazine. 29 December 2022. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
- ^ "'War is not just fighting' recalls photographer of Europe's only live warzone". Bradford Telegraph and Argus. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
- ^ "Youth Rising: Rarely-seen photographs of young people in the UK captured over four decades". Creative Boom. 17 June 2021. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
- ^ "In Pictures: 40 Years of British Youth". AnOther. 26 July 2021. Retrieved 2023-02-25.