Ceraun the DivaNun is a Los Angeles-based cinematic photographer specializing in portraits, headshots, concert and event photography, and hospitality imagery, shooting primarily across Silver Lake, Koreatown, and Downtown LA. They've been photographing since 2008 and working professionally since 2012 — a practice that began with documenting what existed and has evolved into crafting the present image in a cinematic way. Originally from Washington, D.C., Ceraun moved to LA after backpacking through Southeast Asia, Western Europe, and East Africa, travel that still informs the documentary eye behind their work.

Beyond photography, Ceraun is a multidisciplinary artist working across writing, directing, collage, and poetry. As a Black trans artist, their work reclaims visibility for marginalized identities, blending philosophy with storytelling to challenge dominant narratives. That same instinct — finding the story inside a moment — shapes every portrait, headshot, concert, and event they shoot.

Their work has been published in Tread Brightly: Notes on Ethical Travel (2021), The Black Magazines, Artego Magazine, L'Homme Nu, and Quarteros Review, among others, and exhibited in Los Angeles, New York, Amsterdam, and Washington, D.C. Ceraun has spoken on art and activism at Sandbox conferences in Kenya and on mental health and storytelling at V2X. They hold a BA in Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies from Grinnell College.

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Education:

Grinnell College. BA, Gender Women’s and Sexuality Studies

Exhibitions:

Solo

2017- Queeristan, “Where the Streets Have No Name,” Amsterdam, Netherlands

Group

2025- Dandyland Exxxpo- New York, NY

2023- Intersect Gallery “Bodies, Bodies, Bodies” Los Angeles, CA

2016-Black and Bone Chilling “An Archive of Softness,” Washington, DC

2014- Pancakes and Beer, “Untitled,” Washington, DC

Publications and Media:

“Black Vogue.” The Black Magazines Vol 198 February 2025, Pages 16-17

“Traveling While Queer.” Tread Brightly: Notes on Ethical Travel, 2021. Pages 52-55

Guest Editor, Film Matters Issue 2.4 May, 2012

Performances and Talks:

2024- V2X Navigating Mental Health through Arts, Storytelling, and Community

2021- Black Spaceship Poetry Reading 

2020- BlackinSpace Pride- Poetry Reading

2018- Sanbox x Kenya -Art and Activism Panel

2017- The Mobile Closet at Connecticut College

2012- Are We Losing Queerness: Rethinking American Gay Politics through the Netherlands and the Occupy Wallstreet Movement- MBLTACC

Videography

2024- Co Director of “I Know I Know” music video by artist Meimoun

2012-2014- Millennium Stage Cinematographer Kennedy Center