{{Infobox person | name = Cedric Nunn | website = {{url|cedricnunn.co.za}} | birth_date = 1957 | birth_place = Nongoma, KwaZulu | citizenship = South Africa | occupation = Photographer | awards = First National Bank }} {{short description|South African photographer and educator (born 1957)}} {{Primary sources|date=September 2019}} {{EngvarB|date=September 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2014}} '''Cedric Nunn''' (born 1957) is a South African photographer and educator.
He is known for his photography depicting South Africa before and after the end of apartheid.
==Early life and education== Nunn was born into a mixed-race family in Nongoma, KwaZulu, in 1957. He was raised in Hluhluwe, Mangete and Baynesfield.<ref>{{cite web|title=Cedric Nunn Photography|url=http://www.cedricnunn.co.za/about.html|work=About Cedric Nunn|accessdate=7 May 2013|archive-date=14 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130814063756/http://cedricnunn.co.za/about.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
He attended school in Ixopo, KwaZulu-Natal, up until standard eighth (Grade 10), when he was fifteen.<ref>{{cite web|title=South African History Online – Cedric Nunn|url=http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/cedric-nunn|accessdate=6 May 2013}}</ref>
==Career== Nunn moved to Johannesburg in 1982 and began working as a professional photographer at the age of 25.<ref>{{cite web|last=Reker|first=Judith|title=Cedric Nunn: Call and Response|url=http://www.fourthwallbooks.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=32:cedric-nunn-call-and-response&Itemid=99|work=Fourth Wall Books|accessdate=7 May 2013}}</ref> He became one of the prominent photographers to document apartheid resistance in the 1980s.<ref>{{cite web|title=South African History Online – Cedric Nunn|url=http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/cedric-nunn|accessdate=6 May 2013}}</ref>
He went on to co-found Afrapix, a photographic collective that supplied newspapers outside South Africa with images of apartheid, with Paul Weinberg, Peter Mackenzie and Omar Badsha.<ref>{{cite web|title=South African History Online – Cedric Nunn|url=http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/cedric-nunn|accessdate=6 May 2013}}</ref>
He served as the director for Market Photo Workshop, a photography school, gallery, and project space in Johannesburg, from 1998 to 2000.<ref>{{cite web|title=Cedric Nunn|url=http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/cedric-nunn|work=South African History Online|accessdate=9 May 2013}}</ref> Nunn was also a member of the national executive of the Professional Photographers of South Africa (PPSA).<ref>{{cite web|title=Kznsa: Kwazulu Natal Society of Arts|url=http://www.kznsagallery.co.za/artists/cedric_nunn.htm|work=Artists: Cedric Nunn|accessdate=7 May 2013|archive-date=9 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130509162153/http://www.kznsagallery.co.za/artists/cedric_nunn.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Nunn has worked for many nonprofits, newspapers, wire agencies, public-relations companies, and magazines.<ref>{{cite web|title=About Cedric Nunn Clients|url=http://www.cedricnunn.co.za/about.html|work=Artists: Cedric Nunn|accessdate=7 May 2013|archive-date=14 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130814063756/http://cedricnunn.co.za/about.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
He has taught at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in New York City; the University of the Witwatersrand Wits School of Arts in Johannesburg; and The School for International Training.<ref>{{cite web|title=Kznsa: Kwazulu Natal Society of Arts|url=http://www.kznsagallery.co.za/artists/cedric_nunn.htm|work=Artists: Cedric Nunn|accessdate=7 May 2013|archive-date=9 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130509162153/http://www.kznsagallery.co.za/artists/cedric_nunn.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Publications== In 2012, Nunn published the photography book ''Cedric Nunn: Call and Response''. The book accompanied an exhibition of the same name that opened in Mozambique, New York City, and various galleries in South Africa and Germany.<ref>{{cite web|last=Reker|first=Judith|title=Cedric Nunn: Call and Response|url=http://www.fourthwallbooks.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=32:cedric-nunn-call-and-response&Itemid=99|work=Fourth Wall Books|accessdate=7 May 2013|isbn=978-3-7757-3250-5}}</ref>
==Awards== * 2011: First National Bank Johannesburg Art Fair Award.<ref>{{cite web|title=Kznsa: Kwazulu Natal Society of Arts|url=http://www.kznsagallery.co.za/artists/cedric_nunn.htm|work=Artists: Cedric Nunn|accessdate=7 May 2013|archive-date=9 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130509162153/http://www.kznsagallery.co.za/artists/cedric_nunn.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Exhibitions== {{BLP unsourced section|date=September 2019}} *1983 Nichts Wird Uns Trennen (Germany) Group. *1984 Bosmont (Johannesburg, South Africa) Solo. *1984 Women at Work (Johannesburg, South Africa) Group. *1985 South Africa: The Cordoned Heart (USA & South Africa) Group. *1987 Stop the Killings (University of Durban Westville, South Africa) Solo. *1987 History Workshop. Wits University. Johannesburg. South Africa. Group. *1988 Children (Johannesburg, South Africa) Group. *1988. Ten Years of Staffrider (Market Photography Gallery, South Africa) Group. *1989 Beyond the Barricades (Market Photography Gallery, South Africa) Group. *1989 Culture for Another South Africa (Amsterdam, Holland) Group. *1989 Health (South Africa & Germany) Group. *1990 Zabalaza (London, United Kingdom) Group. *1994 This Land is Our Land (Bloemfontein, South Africa) Group. *1995 The Hidden Years (KwaMuhle Museum, Durban, South Africa) Solo. *1995 Black Looks, White Myths (1st Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa) Group. *1996 Colours (Berlin, Germany) Group. *1997. Malhawu, Macufe Arts Festival (Bloemfontein, South Africa) Solo. *1997 NGO Coalition (Johannesburg, South Africa) Group. *1997 Blood Relatives (Playhouse, Durban, South Africa) Solo. *1997 South African National Gallery Contemporary Collection (Cape Town, South Africa) Group. *1998 3rd Festival of African Photography (Bamako, Mali) Group. *1998 Democracy's Images, Bildmuseet (Umea, Sweden) Group. *1998 National Development Agency, Workers Library (Johannesburg, South Africa) Group. *1999 Democracies Images (Johannesburg Art Gallery) Group. *1999 Lines of Sight, The South African National Gallery (Cape Town. South Africa) Curated the exhibition "Photographs Denied" *1999 Workers, The Workers Library & Museum (Johannesburg, South Africa) Group. *2000 Every Child Is My Child, African Window Museum (Pretoria, South Africa) Group. *2000 Capitals, Espace Matisse (Lille, France) Group. *2000 Living In A Strange Land (Parliament, Cape Town) Group. *2000 Emotions and Relations (Sandton Civic Gallery) Group. *2002 Group Portraits, Nine South African Families, Tropen Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands) *Bamako, Maison's Descartes. Amsterdam Photography Biennale (Amsterdam, Netherlands) *2002 Group Portraits, Nine South African Families (Tropen Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands) *2004 Fatherhood Project (Johannesburg, South Africa) *2005 Blood Relatives (Constitution Hill, Johannesburg) Solo. *2007 Then and Now (Rhodes University, Durban Art Gallery) Group. *2009 In Camera (Wits University, Johannesburg) Solo. *2012 Rise and Fall of Apartheid, International Center for Photography (New York) Group. *2012 Cedric Nunn: Call and Response (International) Solo.<ref>{{cite web|last=Nunn|first=Cedric|title=About Cedric Nunn|url=http://www.cedricnunn.co.za/about.html|work=Cedric Nunn Photography|accessdate=7 May 2013|archive-date=14 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130814063756/http://cedricnunn.co.za/about.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> *2013 Cedric Nunn, Call and Response (international) Solo *2014 US Museum Stellenbosch with Seippel Gallery, Unsettled *2014 Albany Museum, Fort Selwyn, Grahamstown, Unsettled *2015 Cedric Nunn: UNSETTLED at UNISA Art Gallery, Pretora; Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg; KZNSA - KwaZulu Natal Society of Arts; Galerie Seippel, Cologne, Germany; David Krut Projects, New York, NY, USA; Landesmuseum Hannover. Solo *2016 Cedric Nunn: UNSETTLED at Iwalewa-Haus Bayreuth, Germany. Solo
==Photography essays== The following are photographic essays by Nunn.<ref>{{cite web|last=Nunn|first=Cedric|title=Essays|url=http://www.cedricnunn.co.za/essays|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211222145956/https://cedricnunn.co.za/essays/|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 December 2021|work=Cedric Nunn Photography|accessdate=8 May 2013}}</ref> * ''Blood Relatives'' – an essay begun in the early 1980s documenting the struggle against apartheid * ''Cuito Cuanavale'' – an essay on the site of a military battle in the late 1980s that brought about profound change in South Africa's political landscape * ''Farm Workers'' – an essay documenting farm workers in South Africa's rural areas * ''Hidden Years'' – a photographic essay included in Nunn's first solo exhibition at the KwaMuhle Museum in Durban in 1996; the photographs were all taken in the Natal, Nunn's birthplace * ''In Camera'' – photographs from post-apartheid South Africa, created in collaboration with the Apartheid Archive Study project * ''Jazz'' – an essay of jazz musicians * ''Johannesburg'' – photographs taken in 2000 during the height of transformation in Johannesburg * ''Rural Development'' – an essay documenting rural life under democracy * ''SANPAD'' – a series of portraits of young parents in South Africa (part of an academic study) * ''Struggle'' – photographs documenting South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy * ''Then and Now'' – a project where eight South African photographers contributed photographs from before and after the end of apartheid
== References == {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{url|cedricnunn.co.za}}, Nunn's official website
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