Cristina Nuñez’s self-portrait method to convert difficult emotions into art, explore unknown aspects of the self and trigger creative expression.
SOMEONE TO LOVE, the show, at the
Cristina Nuñez is a professional artist-photographer who has been taking self-portraits since 1988 as a form of self-therapy, to explore her creative identity and to raise her self-esteem.
She has held workshops on her unique self-portrait method at San Vittore (Milan's prison), FORMA International Center of Photography Milan, the University of Bologna, the Rudolf Steiner school for adolescents, the University of Turku, Finland, Tampere University Hospital in Finland, Sistema Counseling school in Milan, the Citilab Cornellà in Spain, the Women's Health Center in Brooklyn, the Institute for the Arts in Psychotherapy in New York City among others.
Her work as an artist-photographer has been internationally awarded, shown in many exhibitions and published in several photography books. See www.cristinanunez.com
Her book "SOMEONE TO LOVE, The Self-Portrait Experience" has just been published by The Private Space Books in Barcelona. It is a double book: her autobiography in self-portraits, family pictures and texts, and the self-portrait manual, with all the exercises, methodology, theory, some of her most important workshops and many beautiful images produced by her workshop students. The book is now in English, but soon we will launch Italian and Spanish editions. Click on the link to get your copy of the book.
SOMEONE TO LOVE will be shown at the Mois de la Photo in Montreal from September 8 to October 15, 2011, at Skol, Centre des Arts Actuels.
