Christopher Nunn
British photographer
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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]
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
- 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
Solo exhibitions
- Borderlands: Stories of Donbas, Impressions Gallery, Bradford, 2019/20[2][16]
Group exhibitions
- Youth Rising in the UK 1981–2021, Side Gallery, Newcastle, 2021[17][18]