New York Film Academy welcomed Paul Sunday for a special guest lecture and Q&A as part of NYFA’s Photography Guest Speaker Series. NYFA Senior Faculty Member Nancy Burson, curated and moderated the event.

Paul Sunday is an internationally published photographer, multi-disciplinary artist, and educator. Sunday was rigorously trained as an actor. He entered photography in the early 90s as a photo assistant and headshot photographer.

He rapidly advanced to celebrity portraiture and high-end fashion, shooting commissioned work for luxury brands like Bergdorf Goodman and Theory and publications including Interview, Flaunt, W magazine, and Paper.

Simultaneously, he pursued an art practice, exhibiting abstract photography and reductive paintings in galleries and alternative spaces around New York.

He had institutional exhibitions at the New York Public Library and Pratt Manhattan. More recently, he earned a mid-career MFA and began making sculptures and installations where photography hovers on the edges.

Sunday is currently making collages and paintings and teaching in upstate New York.