Humanities in Session: Artist Forum with Cedric Nunn

This session focuses on the work and photography of Cedric Nunn, who will be in conversation with Candice Jansen.

Bio

Cedric Nunn is South African born, raised and based, of 4th-generation mixed-race parentage. He began making photographs in 1982, joining the Johannesburg based photographic association and agency, Afrapix, in the same year and was a member until it closed in 1990. He has continued to work independently as a documentary photographer and artist, showing his work in galleries and museums in South Africa and abroad. In 2011, Nunn won the inaugural FNB Joburg Art Fair Prize, and was awarded the eThekwini Living Legends Award in 2016. He has published two monographs, “Call and Response” and “Unsettled: 100 Years War of Xhosa Resistance Against Boer and British”. He also conceived and directed two video documentaries, “Blood Relatives” and “In the Shadow of Isandlwana: The Rorke’s Drift Arts Centre Story”. He now lives in Mangethe, on the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast.