Cedric Nunn

• Name — Cedric Nunn • Website — cedricnunn.co.za • Born — 1957 • Birthplace — Nongoma, KwaZulu • Citizenship — South Africa • Occupation — Photographer • Awards — First National Bank

Nunn was born into a mixed-race family in Nongoma, KwaZulu, in 1957. He was raised in Hluhluwe, Mangete and Baynesfield. He attended school in Ixopo, KwaZulu-Natal, up until standard eighth (Grade 10), when he was fifteen.

Nunn moved to Johannesburg in 1982 and began working as a professional photographer at the age of 25. He became one of the prominent photographers to document apartheid resistance in the 1980s. 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. He served as the director for Market Photo Workshop, a photography school, gallery, and project space in Johannesburg, from 1998 to 2000. Nunn was also a member of the national executive of the Professional Photographers of South Africa (PPSA). Nunn has worked for many nonprofits, newspapers, wire agencies, public-relations companies, and magazines. 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.

• 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. • 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