Zed Nelson - Gun Nation

Zed Nelson - Gun Nation

Nelson?s images reflect the dangerous conditions he has encountered in his twelve-year career in photojournalism -- in the Foreign Legion, the Ku Klux Klan, the famine in Somalia and the war in Afghanistan. Portraits include Fidel Castro, Margaret Thatcher and Mick Jagger. His work appears regularly in the Sunday Times, Time, Stern, Esquire and GQ magazine, and his images have been exhibited in London at the National Portrait Gallery, the V&A and the Royal Festival Hall. ?Gun Nation? was exhibited as a major one-man show at the Newseum Gallery, New York (1999). Nelson has appeared on Good Morning America and the Charlie Rose Show (USA) and Channel 4 News and Sky News (UK). Zed Nelson lives in London, and is currently on a tour of US universities lecturing on photography and American gun culture.

Zed Nelson worked as a photojournalist with the BBC?s News & Current Affairs team and now works freelance via the London-based agency IPG. ?Gun Nation? is his most important work to date. Images from the book won the 1998 World Press Photo competition, the Visa d?Or for ?Best Magazine Feature?, and the prestigious 1999 Alfred Eisenstaedt Award.

Hardcover: 160 pages
Publisher: Westzone (2001)