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Cedric Nunn Artist Talk
Cedric Nunn is an award-winning documentary photographer and artist based in Mangethe on the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast. Nunn began making photographs in 1982 and joined the Johannesburg based photographic association and agency Afrapix in the same year. Nunn was a longstanding member of Aprapix and continued to work with the agency until it closed in 1990. As an independent documentary photographer and artist, his work has been showcased in galleries and museums in South Africa and abroad. In 2011, he won the first FNB Joburg Art Fair Award, and in 2016 the eThekwini Living Legends Award. The talk will be part of launching the African Documentary Photography Archive Initiative (ADPAI).
African Documentary Photography Archive Initiative (ADPAI)
ADPAI is a project of Art for Humanity, hosted at the Faculty of Art and Design, Durban University of Technology (DUT). The project exists to meet the overwhelming need to digitize and make available the images of African documentary photographers, especially those who emerged in the 1980s and produced images of that all-important decade of transition in Southern Africa. Many of these photographers were independent or worked in collectives and agencies which were independent. Their negatives (produced in analogue format in a pre-digital age, and a few prints) are largely not scanned and thus unavailable electronically, ensuring that these important images are not in the national and global memory and consciousness.