Stuart Dunn
Travel photographer
Stuart was born in 1977 in Newcastle. He studied at the Northern Media School, where he gained a Masters in Screen Arts. During his time there, Stuart embarked on his first filming expedition with fellow student Pandula Godawatta. On a shoestring budget, they travelled to the Tamil Tiger-controlled regions of Sri Lanka, in an attempt to tell the story of the civil war that had raged for over 20 years.
Since then Stuart has become a multi award-winning photographer and filmmaker. His assignments have taken him across the globe, photographing a wide range of topics, from critically endangered animals, to remote tribes.
He regularly works for the BBC Natural History Unit, National Geographic and Discovery Channel, filming internationally acclaimed documentaries that are screened to audiences around the world.
In the foreword to his new book, the filmmaker and photographer Stuart Dunn argues that humankind’s hopes, fears, flaws and desires are common to all. For him, ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ doesn’t exist – there is ‘Only Us’, and those last two words form the title of the book. Chronicling Dunn’s years spent travelling the world, this
