Biography

Nathaniel Brunt is an interdisciplinary scholar, photographer and archival artist based in Toronto, Canada. His research and photographic practice focus on the history and photographic representation of modern war. Brunt is currently pursuing a PhD in the Communication and Culture joint program at Ryerson University and York University. His doctoral research is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and The Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation.

Brunt’s photographic work has been featured in the Globe and Mail, Sharp Magazine, and PDN, and has been exhibited in Canada and internationally. He has received academic and photographic honours from organizations including the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, the International Visual Sociology Association, and the Alexia Foundation for World Peace. Recently Brunt was a visiting scholar at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. He is co-director, with Alisha Sett, of the Kashmir Photo Collective, a digital resource of endangered photographs and related historical material that preserves, visualizes, and diversifies the histories of the Kashmir Valley.