Jay Dunn

Jay Dunn is an award-winning American photojournalist represented by the Focus Agency in Hamburg, Germany. Specializing in stories that dignify the human struggle, he works with NGOs and social service groups to document on-the-ground conditions in education, poverty relief, and crisis management.

Currently based in Chicago and shooting features for the Spanish newspaper “HOY,” he welcomes domestic and foreign press assignments, with clients such as the New York Times and National Public Radio to his credits. From this experienced photographer, count on new approaches to your project, an original viewpoint, and striking imagery from archives that include Niger, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Burma, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, and China.

A winner of multiple awards for photography including the First Prize from National Geographic Traveler, he has worked with a wide range of magazines. Mr. Dunn is the author of two anthologies – “Ritual and Romance in Asia: a photographer’s journey,” and “Agadez to Accra: from the deserts of Niger to the Gulf of Guinea.”

“In the very humanity of a gesture, what I look for are the emotions we all share, the intimacy of friendship, or the pain of loss, an offering to the hungry, or hands clasped in prayer. But these fleeting seconds come and go, they are mercurial, inspiring, to be written over and forgotten or preserved forever behind glass, a captured flash of brilliance. To have stopped, when it was much easier to walk away, to have tried to make a difference, to have regarded the ways of others, and found lessons for my own life, these things alone keep open that elusive window, through which I hope a moment of truth may still be seen.”

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