Christopher Nunn Explained

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

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Notes and References

  1. Diane. Smyth. 2023-02-25. Christopher Nunn's best photograph: a picnic in the shadow of war. The Guardian. 14 November 2019. 0261-3077.
  2. News: 2023-02-25. Snapshot: 'Borderland' by Christopher Nunn. Financial Times. 20 December 2019.
  3. Web site: 2023-02-25. Photographer Spotlight: Christopher Nunn. booooooom.com.
  4. News: Jessie. Bond. 2023-02-25. War on Instagram: merging conflict and everyday life in Christopher Nunn's photos of Ukraine. The Calvert Journal.
  5. Web site: Izabela Radwanska. Zhang. 2023-02-25. Space as a witness: The war rooms of Ukraine. British Journal of Photography.
  6. Web site: 2023-02-25. Chris Nunn. https://web.archive.org/web/20140809221534/http://cnnphotos.blogs.cnn.com/category/chris-nunn/. dead. August 9, 2014. CNN (blog).
  7. Web site: Yuliana. Romanyshyn. 2023-02-25. UK photographer's eyes injured in mortar attack in Avdiyivka - Feb. 03, 2017. 3 February 2017. Kyiv Post.
  8. Web site: 2023-02-25. A British journalist shelled in Ukraine tells the world he's safe in a three-word tweet. 3 February 2017. The Independent.
  9. Web site: 2023-02-25. Juxtapoz Magazine - Christopher Nunn: Falling into the Day. www.juxtapoz.com.
  10. Web site: 2023-02-25. Edith. 20 July 2015. GUP Magazine.
  11. Web site: Jörg. Colberg. Jörg Colberg. 2023-02-25. The Information Front ensures the war and atrocities taking place in Ukraine are not forgotten. British Journal of Photography.
  12. News: 2023-02-25. How Ukrainian photographers captured a year of conflict. Financial Times. 17 February 2023.
  13. Web site: 2023-02-25. Small Shops You Need to Visit. 5 December 2014. AnOther.
  14. Web site: 2023-02-25. Searching for joy in the midst of Ukraine's bloody conflict. 2 June 2017. Huck Magazine.
  15. Web site: 2023-02-25. The Information Front, Volume 2. Ukraine – The Path to Freedom. 29 December 2022. The Eye of Photography Magazine.
  16. Web site: 2023-02-25. 'War is not just fighting' recalls photographer of Europe's only live warzone. Bradford Telegraph and Argus.
  17. Web site: 2023-02-25. Youth Rising: Rarely-seen photographs of young people in the UK captured over four decades. 17 June 2021. Creative Boom.
  18. Web site: 2023-02-25. In Pictures: 40 Years of British Youth. 26 July 2021. AnOther.

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