Cristina Nuñez
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Born in 1962, Cristina Nuñez is a self-taught artist-photographer, whose work has been exhibited and published internationally, and she is a facilitator of the creative process with her method The Self-Portrait Experience (SPEX). In 2020 Nuñez obtained her PhD by Publications at the College of Arts, University of Derby, on her artistic practice and her SPEX method.
Nuñez obtained the Diamond Phototherapy Award 2020 of the Royal Photographic Society in Bristol, in recognition of her long term practice with therapeutic photography using her method The Self-Portrait Experience in her autobiographical work since 1988 and in her work with over 3700 people around the world since 2004. The award was given during the Photo-Therapy Day online Symposium on May 22, 2020. Nuñez lives in Northern France and works in Luxembourg.
After an adolescence as a drug addict, Cristina Nuñez takes self-portraits since 1988 as a sort of self-therapy, to explore and stimulate her creative identity, and to increase self-esteem in moments of crisis. In 2004 she realizes that this practice can be useful for others and creates The Self-Portrait Experience (SPEX), a dispositive to explore one’s inner life using the photo self-portrait, including directions for the choice and perception of images and for the construction of autobiographical projects.
Since 2004 Nuñez holds SPEX workshops in prisons, mental health facilities, rehab centers, youth centers, high schools, art academies, universities, museums, galleries and companies, in Italy, Spain, Switzerland, France, UK, Norway, Finland, Luxemburg, Germany, USA, Canada, South Korea, Bangladesh and Australia.
In 2007 Nuñez starts working on her autobiographical project SOMEONE TO LOVE, using self-portraits, family pictures, text and video, exhibited at the Mois de la Photo in Montreal in 2011. Her autobiographical video SOMEONE TO LOVE obtains the Celeste Prize 2012 and her project But Beautiful, the Prix de la Critique 2013, Voies Off, Arles.
(Source : The self-portrait experience)
