He attended school in Ixopo, KwaZulu-Natal, up until standard eighth (Grade 10), when he was fifteen.[2]
Career
Nunn moved to Johannesburg in 1982 and began working as a professional photographer at the age of 25.[3] He became one of the prominent photographers to document apartheid resistance in the 1980s.[4]
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.[5]
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.[10]
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.[12]
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.[13]
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