The Whiles

Cheryl Dunn is a New York City based documentary filmmaker and photographer. Since the late 80's she has spent a large part of her career documenting city streets and the people who strive to leave their mark there as well as monumental NYC events: the collapse of the Twin Towers and the black out of 2003. She's had four photography books published, ALL Roses (2025), Festivals Are Good (2017), Some Kind of Vocation (2007) and Bicycle Gangs of NY (2004). Her work has shown at The Brooklyn Museum, the Tate Modern, the Ge?en Contemporary, Yerba Buena Center for the arts and the Oakland Museum of Art to name a few. Her latest feature film Moments Like this Never Last about the late artist Dash Snow and the downtown art scene post-9/11, premiered at DocNYC, followed by a theatrical release. Her first feature Everybody Street, about the lives and work of 12 of New York's most iconic living (at the time) street photographers - including Bruce Davidson, Jamel Shabazz, and Jill Freedman, won awards and played at festivals worldwide. The Whiles a new photography book will be released spring of 2026.