Simon Norfolk

Simon Norfolk
Born	1963 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]}

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 Hertford 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

• 2001: World Press Photo ^[5]
• 2002: European Publishers Award for Photography ^[6]
• 2003: Citibank Prize, shortlisted ^{[8] [13]}
• 2003: Overseas Press Club of America, Olivier Rebbot Award ^[14]
• 2004: Infinity Prize, International Center of Photography ^[15]
• 2005: Prix Dialogue de l'Humanite award, Rencontres d'Arles ^[16]
• 2012: World Press Photo, Portraits, 3rd prize ^[17]
• 2012: Sony World Photography Awards, Professional Competition, People, 1st place ^[18]
• 2012: Association of Photographers, Gold Award, Non-commissioned Project ^[19]
• 2013: Prix Pictet Commission ^{[20] [9]}
• 2015: Sony World Photography Awards, Professional Competition, Landscape, 1st place ^[21]
• 2015: LensCulture Earth Awards, Series Winner, Fine Art / Conceptual ^[22]
• 2016: British Archaeological Awards, Best Public Presentation (for "Under London," National Geographic Magazine ) ^[23]
• 2020 Shifting Foundation Grant^{[ citation needed ]}

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

• For most of it I have no words, Side Gallery, Newcastle, June–August 1999 ^[24]

Group exhibitions

• Afghanistan: Chronotopia, part of The Citibank Prize, The Photographers' Gallery, London, 2003. ^[25]
• Prix Pictet Commission photographs, Somerset House, London, 10–27 October 2013. ^[9] With Munem Wasif, Ed Kashi, and Chris Jordan.
• AOP50: Images that Defined the Age. ^[26]

Publications

• For Most of It I Have No Words: Genocide, Landscape, Memory. Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 1998. ISBN   978-1899235667.
• Afghanistan. Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2002. ISBN   978-1899235544.
• Afghanistan: Chronotopia.
  • Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2002. ISBN   978-2742740512.
  • Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2005.
• Bleed. Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2005. ISBN   978-1904587194.
• Full Spectrum Dominance. Self-published, 2009. Edition of 95 copies.
• Burke + Norfolk: Photographs from the War in Afghanistan by John Burke and Simon Norfolk. Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2011. ISBN   978-1907893117. Photographs by Norfolk and John Burke.

Public collections

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

• Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas ^[27]
• Cleveland Museum of Art ^[28]
• George Eastman Museum, Rochester ^[29]
• Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle ^[30]
• Hyman Collection, London ^[31]
• International Center of Photography (ICP) ^[32]
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art ^[33]
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ^{[34] [35]}
• Milwaukee Art Museum ^[36]
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston ^[10]
• National Media Museum, Bradford ^[37]
• Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City ^[38]
• Portland Art Museum ^[39]
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ^[40]
• Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri ^[41]
• Tate Modern, London ^[11]
• Wolverhampton Art Gallery ^[42]

References

1. "Simon Norfolk". simonnorfolk.com. Retrieved 12 October 2013.
2. Norfolk, Simon (23 October 2008). "Simon Norfolk's best shot". The Guardian . London. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
3. "Simon Norfolk: "Photography Has to Turn into a Moral Imperative" | Bleek Magazine". Bleek Magazine. 14 July 2016. Archived from the original on 19 July 2016. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
4. "Simon Norfolk". International Center of Photography. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
5. "Simon Norfolk wins a portrait prize in World Press Photo". British Journal of Photography. Archived from the original on 14 October 2013. Retrieved 12 October 2013.
6. "Previous winners Archived 2015-02-15 at the Wayback Machine ", European Publishers Award for Photography. Accessed 8 May 2014.
7. "Simon Norfolk". International Center of Photography. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
8. "London Photography Exhibitions". jfFrank. 28 April 2016. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
9. Norfolk, Simon (28 June 2013). "Prix Pictet: Simon Norfolk in Afghanistan". London: Financial Times . Retrieved 5 October 2015.
10. "Search the Collection". Museum of Fine Arts, Houston . Retrieved 5 October 2017.
11. "Simon Norfolk: born 1963". Tate Modern . Retrieved 5 October 2017.
12. Simon Norfolk biography, Widewalls
13. Searle, Adrian (4 February 2003). "Love and rockets". The Guardian . London. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
14. Holstein, William J.; Corporon, John; Murphy, Cait (1 April 2003). Serrill, Michael S. (ed.). "The Overseas Press Club of America Annual Awards". Dateline. No. 2003 Special Issue. Overseas Press Club of America. pp. 40–42. Retrieved 18 June 2024.
15. "Past Recipients". International Center of Photography. 16 May 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
16. Philips, Jocelyn (2012). Collect Contemporary Photography. London: Thames & Hudson. p. 145. ISBN   978-0-500-28854-2 . Retrieved 18 June 2024.
17. "Burke + Norfolk". World Press Photo. Retrieved 18 June 2024.
18. "1st place, Simon Norfolk, UK | World Photography Organisation". www.worldphoto.org (in Italian). Retrieved 10 January 2018.
19. "The Photographers Awards 2012". www.the-aop.org. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
20. "Simon Norfolk: Body of Work". Prix Pictet . Retrieved 5 October 2015.
21. "Simon Norfolk, UK, 1st Place | World Photography Organisation". www.worldphoto.org. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
22. Norfolk, Simon |. "When I Am Laid In Earth: Mapping with a Pyrograph - Interview with Simon Norfolk | LensCulture". LensCulture. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
23. "2016 Winners | British Archaeological Awards". www.archaeologicalawards.com. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
24. "For most of it I have no words", Amber Online. Archived by the Wayback Machine on 7 March 2016.
25. Searle, Adrian (4 February 2003). "Love and rockets". The Guardian . London. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
26. Celebrating 50 Years of the Association of Photographers,' London, UK.
27. "ACM". www.cartermuseum.org. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
28. "Date Grove, Haifa Street, Baghdad | Cleveland Museum of Art". www.clevelandart.org. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
29. "Results | Search Objects | George Eastman Museum". collections.eastman.org. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
30. "Henry Art Gallery".
31. "Search - Hyman Collection - British Photography". www.britishphotography.org. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
32. "The North Gate of Baghdad (After Corot)". International Center of Photography. 3 March 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
33. "Search | LACMA". www.lacma.org. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
34. Norfolk, Simon (2003), The North Gate of Baghdad , retrieved 27 December 2017
35. Norfolk, Simon (2003), King Amanullah's 1919 Victory Arch at Paghman , retrieved 27 December 2017
36. "The Bombed, Burned, and Looted Ministry of Planning, Baghdad | Milwaukee Art Museum". collection.mam.org. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
37. "Thirty large format c-type colour prints by Simon Norfolk".
38. "Large Hadron Collider No. 6, CERN Labs, Switzerland – Results – Search Objects – The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art". art.nelson-atkins.org. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
39. "Portland Art Museum | Online Collections". www.portlandartmuseum.us. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
40. "Search". SFMOMA. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
41. "Afghan refugees at Jalozai camp, Peshawar, Pakistan". Archived from the original on 29 December 2017.
42. "You searched for - Wolverhampton Arts & Culture". www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk. Retrieved 28 December 2017.

External links

• Official website