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- Cheryl Dunn is a filmmaker and photographer based in New York City. Her work is influenced by alternative urban and youth culture, documenting skaters, the homeless, musicians, graffiti, artists, and their processes. Dunn graduated with a degree in art history from Rutgers University, traveled throughout Europe, and lived in Milan. After traveling Europe in her twenties, she returned to New York to pursue photography, shooting for magazines such as Spin, Vogue, Elle, Harpers Bazaar, and Dazed and Confused. In the mid-1990s, Dunn began to focus much more on filmmaking. Her first film, Sped (1997), was created as a series of vignettes on young artists from the skateboarding world. Her second film, Backworlds for Words (1999), documents a skateboard ballet by artist and professional skateboarder Mark Gonzales, viewed at the Stadtisches Museum in Monchengladbach, Germany. In 2000, Dunn's photographs were exhibited in the Widely Unknown show at Deitch Projects. Dunn took part in work for a traveling museum show that became a book and a documentary film, titled Beautiful Losers. Her film contribution to this show was called Come Mute, about a young New Jersey girl who seeks to bring creativity to her working class life. In 2005, her film Bicycle Gangs of NY was shown at the Tribeca Film Festival. Her film Creative Life Store documents a group of artists (some of whom appear in Beautiful Losers) as they negotiate a cash-injected media frenzy in Tokyo. Dunn was awarded a residency at the Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio in 2002. Her recent production for the Seaport Museum of New York, called Everybody Street is a film about photographers who have used New York City streets as a major subject in their work. The film includes legends in the field including Bruce Davidson, Joel Meyerowitz, Bruce Gilden, Mary Ellen Mark, Jamel Shabazz, Ricky Powell, Martha Cooper, Rebecca Lepkoff, Luc Sante, and Jeff Mermelstein.
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- Cheryl Dunn is a filmmaker and photographer based in New York City. Her work is influenced by alternative urban and youth culture, documenting skaters, the homeless, musicians, graffiti, artists, and their processes. Dunn graduated with a degree in art history from Rutgers University, traveled throughout Europe, and lived in Milan.
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