Jay Gunning
New York, NY, USA
JAY GUNNING grew up in rural Australia. The driving purpose for all of his work has been to demonstrate the similarities of all cultures and ethnicities with the intention of breaking down social preconceptions. Jay has a catalogue consisting of world leaders to rock stars and devastated to celebrated. Starting his career as a commercial advertising photographer he worked with medium format film camera before digital became the norm, he now works with all mediums to achieve the right look for the shot.
After working internally for international NGO's fighting to alleviate poverty he has a deep understanding of politics and implications relating to story telling. As a result, Jay has worked with numerous NGO’s, publishers and commercial enterprises as a photographer and content producer in house and in the field to help achieve their visual needs.
Jay has had several inclusions and three solo exhibitions plus awarded success within the advertising industry. Inspired to explore and gain a greater understanding of communities around the globe is part of his pursuit of positive social change and these values are reflected in his urban works.
He currently lives in New York City.
2002 - All Awards: Commercial and Personal
- Advertising
- Arts
- Conflict
- Crisis
- Editorial
- Entertainment
- Interview
- Portrait
- Video capture
- Video editing