Simon Norfolk Explained

Simon Norfolk
Birth Date:1963
Birth Place:Lagos, Nigeria
Nationality:British
Field:Photography
Education:Newport College of Art, University of Bristol, Hertord College

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 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 (now known as the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize), and in 2013 he won the Prix Pictet Commission. His works have been collected in museums like the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Tate Modern, London.

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.

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."[8]

He has published four photographic books, being the first, (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.[8]

Awards

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Publications

Public collections

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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Simon Norfolk. October 12, 2013. simonnorfolk.com.
  2. News: Simon Norfolk's best shot. 23 October 2008 . 5 October 2015 . Simon . Norfolk . . London .
  3. News: Simon Norfolk: "Photography Has to Turn into a Moral Imperative" Bleek Magazine. 2016-07-14. Bleek Magazine. 2018-01-25. en-US.
  4. Web site: Simon Norfolk. International Center of Photography. 2024-06-16.
  5. Web site: Simon Norfolk wins a portrait prize in World Press Photo. British Journal of Photography. October 12, 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131014131634/http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2145402/simon-norfolk-wins-portrait-prize-world-press-photo. October 14, 2013.
  6. "Previous winners ", European Publishers Award for Photography. Accessed 8 May 2014.
  7. Web site: Simon Norfolk. International Center of Photography. 2024-06-16.
  8. https://www.widewalls.ch/artists/simon-norfolk Simon Norfolk biography, Widewalls
  9. Web site: London Photography Exhibitions. jfFrank. 28 April 2016. 3 November 2017.
  10. News: Love and rockets. 4 February 2003 . 29 April 2016 . Adrian . Searle . Adrian Searle . . London .
  11. Holstein . William J. . Corporon . John . Murphy . Cait . Serrill . Michael S. . The Overseas Press Club of America Annual Awards . Dateline . 1 April 2003 . 2003 Special Issue . 40-42 . 18 June 2024 . Overseas Press Club of America . en.
  12. News: Past Recipients. 2016-05-16. International Center of Photography. 2017-12-14. en.
  13. Book: Philips . Jocelyn . Collect Contemporary Photography . 2012 . Thames & Hudson . London . 978-0-500-28854-2 . 145 . 18 June 2024.
  14. Web site: Burke + Norfolk . World Press Photo . 18 June 2024.
  15. Web site: 1st place, Simon Norfolk, UK World Photography Organisation. www.worldphoto.org. it. 2018-01-10.
  16. Web site: The Photographers Awards 2012. www.the-aop.org. en. 2018-01-10.
  17. Web site: Simon Norfolk: Body of Work . 5 October 2015 . Prix Pictet.
  18. News: Prix Pictet: Simon Norfolk in Afghanistan. 28 June 2013 . 5 October 2015 . Simon . Norfolk . . London .
  19. Web site: Simon Norfolk, UK, 1st Place World Photography Organisation. www.worldphoto.org. en. 2018-01-10.
  20. News: When I Am Laid In Earth: Mapping with a Pyrograph - Interview with Simon Norfolk LensCulture. Norfolk . Simon . LensCulture. 2018-01-10.
  21. Web site: 2016 Winners British Archaeological Awards. www.archaeologicalawards.com. en-US. 2018-01-10.
  22. "For most of it I have no words", Amber Online. Archived by the Wayback Machine on 7 March 2016.
  23. News: Love and rockets. 4 February 2003 . 5 October 2017 . Adrian . Searle . . London .
  24. https://home.the-aop.org/information/about-us/aop50 Celebrating 50 Years of the Association of Photographers
  25. Web site: ACM. www.cartermuseum.org. 2017-12-28.
  26. Web site: Date Grove, Haifa Street, Baghdad Cleveland Museum of Art. www.clevelandart.org. en. 2017-12-28.
  27. Web site: Results Search Objects George Eastman Museum. collections.eastman.org. 2017-12-28.
  28. Web site: Henry Art Gallery.
  29. Web site: Search - Hyman Collection - British Photography. www.britishphotography.org. en. 2017-12-28.
  30. News: The North Gate of Baghdad (After Corot). 2016-03-03. International Center of Photography. 2017-12-14. en.
  31. Web site: Search LACMA. www.lacma.org. 2017-12-28.
  32. Web site: The Bombed, Burned, and Looted Ministry of Planning, Baghdad Milwaukee Art Museum. collection.mam.org. 2017-12-28.
  33. Web site: Search the Collection. 5 October 2017 . .
  34. Web site: Thirty large format c-type colour prints by Simon Norfolk.
  35. Web site: Large Hadron Collider No. 6, CERN Labs, Switzerland – Results – Search Objects – The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. art.nelson-atkins.org. en. 2017-12-28.
  36. Web site: Portland Art Museum Online Collections. www.portlandartmuseum.us. 2017-12-28.
  37. Web site: Search. SFMOMA. 2017-12-28.
  38. Web site: Afghan refugees at Jalozai camp, Peshawar, Pakistan. https://web.archive.org/web/20171229231625/http://emuseum.slam.org:8080/emuseum/view/objects/asitem/search%40/0?t%3Astate%3Aflow%3Deb5755ab%2D59d0%2D4e2f%2D82ca%2D88d35e3f1bac. 2017-12-29. dead.
  39. Web site: Simon Norfolk: born 1963. 5 October 2017 . .
  40. Web site: You searched for - Wolverhampton Arts & Culture. www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk. en-US. 2017-12-28.

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