
Cheryl Dunn
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Biography
Cheryl Dunn is a documentary filmmaker and photographer based in New York City. Since the late '80s, she’s been documenting the people and subcultures that define the city's streets, from graffiti artists to skaters and boxers.
Known For

Dash Snow rejected a life of privilege to make his own way as an artist on the streets of downtown New York City in the late 1990s. Developing from a notorious graffiti tagger into an international art star, he documented his drug- and alcohol-fueled nights with the surrogate family he formed with friends and fellow artists Ryan McGinley and Dan Colen before his death by heroin overdose in 2009. Drawing from Snow’s unforgettable body of work and involving archival footage, Cheryl Dunn’s exceptional portrait captures his all-too-brief life of reckless excess and creativity.
Moments Like This Never Last

Celebrated filmmaker and photographer Cheryl Dunn turns her lens on the pioneers and masters of New York street photography. Dunn profiles artists spanning six decades, including Bruce Davidson, Mary Ellen Mark, Jill Freedman, Jeff Mermelstein and Martha Cooper, revealing that these shooters are as colourful and unique as the subjects they’ve relentlessly documented. Everybody Street explores the passion that compelled Freedman to spend years riding in squad cars during the most violent years in the city; Bruce Gilden’s drive to thrust his camera in people’s faces to capture a moment; and Martha Cooper’s dedication to chasing graffiti on passing subway cars in the Bronx. The film is a definitive look at the iconic visionaries of this often imitated art form.
Everybody Street

Filmed in 1995, A Love Supreme was filmed for Supreme in New York by Thomas Campbell. Shot in black and white with a really jazzy soundtrack featuring John Coltrane. A beautiful record of 1990s NYC.
A Love Supreme

Documentary about a group of 14 artists including Margaret Killgallen, Stephen Powers (ESPO), and Ed Templeton who go on a trip to Tokyo together in 2000.
Creative Life Store

Documentary short featuring artist and professional skateboarder Mark Gonzales performing at the Stadtisches Museum in Monchengladbach, Germany in 1999.