Christopher Nunn (born 1983) is a British social documentary and

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. He had a solo exhibition of his work about the Donbas, Ukraine, at

Impressions Gallery Impressions Gallery is an independent contemporary photography gallery in Bradford, England. It was established in 1972 and located in York until moving to Bradford in 2007. Impressions Gallery also runs a photography bookshop, publishes its own ...

in Bradford.

Life and work

Nunn was born in

Huddersfield Huddersfield is a market town in the Kirklees district in West Yorkshire, England. It is the administrative centre and largest settlement in the Kirklees district. The town is in the foothills of the Pennines. The River Holme's confluence into ...

. He earned a BA in photography at

Bradford College Bradford College is a further and higher education college in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, with approximately 25,000 students. The college offers a range of full and part-time courses from introductory level through to postgraduate l ...

. He makes social documentary and

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. He has spent over a decade making work in Ukraine, predominantly in the

Donbas The Donbas or Donbass (, ; uk, Донба́с ; russian: Донба́сс ) is a historical, cultural, and economic region in eastern Ukraine. Parts of the Donbas are controlled by Russian separatist groups as a result of the Russo-Ukrai ...

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

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, 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

*''Kalush''. 2013. *''Ukrainian Street Dogs''. Leeds: Village, 2014. Zine. Edition of 120 copies. *''Holy Water''. Leeds: Village, 2015. Edition of 500 copies. *''Borderland: Stories from Donbas''. Essarter, 2019. English, French and Russian text. Newspaper format. Edition of 1000 copies.

''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.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

*''Borderlands: Stories of Donbas'',

, Bradford, 2019/20

Group exhibitions

*''Youth Rising in the UK 1981–2021,

Side Gallery Side Gallery is a photography gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne, run by Amber Film & Photography Collective. It opened in 1977 as Side Gallery and Cinema with a remit to show humanist photography "both by and commissioned by the group along with ...

, Newcastle, 2021

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nunn, Christopher Social documentary photographers British portrait photographers 21st-century British photographers Photographers from Yorkshire Artists from Huddersfield Living people 1983 births