Born in Redhill, Surrey, England on July 21, 1934, the self-taught David Hurn acquired his first experiences as a photo journalist in London, working for the Reflex Agency. He achieved initial recognition as a result of the pictures he took during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. In the sixties he also worked as a stills photographer on films. He has been a full member of the Magnum Agency since 1967. The photographer has been living in Tintern, Wales since 1972. In 1973 he founded the School of Documentary Photography in Newport, Wales, where he taught up until 1989. In 2017, he donated around 1,500 of his own photographs and the majority of his valuable collection to the Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales in Cardiff.
