
Chris Gunn
Chris Gunn is a photographer and visual storyteller whose work bridges the worlds of human ambition, space exploration and advanced technology. As a longtime NASA photographer, most notably for the James Webb Space Telescope, Gunn has spent more than a decade documenting some of the most ambitious scientific endeavors of our time from inside labs and cleanrooms and at remote test sites around the world. His photographs have appeared in National Geographic, Scientific American, The Atlantic, Bloomberg and other major publications. He is known for images that reveal both the precision of engineering and the human stories behind scientific discovery. After his work on Webb, Gunn served for four years as the lead photographer for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, continuing his role capturing complex spacecraft development and testing. Gunn’s documentary work explores space through the endeavors of humans here on Earth, particularly the development of hardware and technologies that will allow us to peer deeper and explore farther into the cosmos. His current projects focus on cutting-edge Earth research, observing science and emerging technologies that will enable humans to live and work off-planet.