Simon Norfolk

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Simon Norfolk
Born1963
Lagos, Nigeria
Nationality British
Known for Photography
Website Official website

Simon Norfolk (born 1963) is a Nigerian-born British architectural and landscape photographer. [1] [2] He has produced four photo book monographs of his work. He lives and works in Brighton & Hove. He also lived in Kabul. His work is featured regularly in the National Geographic , the New York Times Magazine and The Guardian Weekend . [3] [4]

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Norfolk has won the Prix Dialogue de l'Humanite award at Rencontres d'Arles, in 2005, multiple World Press Photo and Sony World Photography Awards, [5] the Foreign Press Club of America Award, European Publishers Award for Photography [6] and an Infinity Prize from the International Center of Photography, in 2004. [7] In 2003 he was shortlisted for the Citibank Prize [8] (now known as the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize), and in 2013 he won the Prix Pictet Commission. [9] His works have been collected in museums like the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston [10] and Tate Modern, London. [11]

Early life and education

Norfolk was born in Lagos, Nigeria but was raised in England. Norfolk studied documentary photography at Newport College of Art. He also studied at University of Bristol and Hertord College, in Oxford, earning a degree in Philosophy and Sociology. [2]

Life and work

He is considered a landscape photographer, who has dedicated himself to document some of the most serious contemporary war zones and refugee crisis, often depicting the aftermath of the conflicts and its results on land and people. The website Widewalls states that "Without the subjectiveness of most photojournalism, these landscapes allow the viewer to draw their own conclusion on the effects war." [12]

He has published four photographic books, being the first, For Most of It I Have No Words: Genocide, Landscape, Memory (1998), about the aftermath of several contemporary genocides in countries like Rwanda, Cambodia, Vietnam, Germany, Ukraine, Armenia, and Namibia. Norfolk second book, Afghanistan: Chronotopia (2002), is about the conflict on Afghanistan, and Bleed (2005), was dedicated to the aftermath of the Bosnian War (1992–1995). He took aim to historical photography with his book Burke + Norfolk (2001), dedicated to the work of the Irish photographer John Burke during the Second Anglo-Afghan War, in the 1880s, and his own work inspired by it and related to the contemporary war in the same country. This book was the subject of an exhibition that took place in Tate Modern, in London, with Norfolk being one of the few photographers ever to be given a solo exhibition in that museum. [12]

Awards

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Publications

Public collections

Norfolk's work is held in the following public collections:

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