Graham Dunn
Graham Dunn, born 1952, is the son of a Vietnamese riverboat captain and a French rubber tree farmer. His father gave him his first camera—a 1948 Nikon 1 rangefinder—but film was hard to come by near his rural home. With the aid of his father, he was able to formulate his own film with rubber, silver filings, and other available items, allowing him to take frequent family portraits.
At 17, he moved to France on his own, renting a basement in a decrepit chateau once owned by Napoleon. He survived by working nights at a local university’s darkroom, printing student work. It was on a particularly humid summer night that the odors of darkroom chemicals became overwhelming, sending Graham into a coma lasting nearly thirty-four years. When a breakthrough in neural treatment awoke him in 2003, it was as though he was still 17. Dunn is now 24/58 years old, happily married, and shooting in Los Angeles, California.
At 17, he moved to France on his own, renting a basement in a decrepit chateau once owned by Napoleon. He survived by working nights at a local university’s darkroom, printing student work. It was on a particularly humid summer night that the odors of darkroom chemicals became overwhelming, sending Graham into a coma lasting nearly thirty-four years. When a breakthrough in neural treatment awoke him in 2003, it was as though he was still 17. Dunn is now 24/58 years old, happily married, and shooting in Los Angeles, California.
