Simon Norfolk

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. His photographs are held in over a dozen public museum collections.

Life and work

Norfolk was born in Nigeria but was raised in England. Norfolk studied documentary photography at Newport College of Art.[2] He lives and works in Brighton & Hove and Kabul.[3][4]

Norfolk has won the Prix Dialogue de l'Humanite award at Rencontres d'Arles, 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 International Center of Photography. In 2003 he was shortlisted for the Citibank Prize[7] (now known as the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize), and in 2013 he won the Prix Pictet Commission.[8] His works have been collected by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston[9] and Tate Modern, London.[10]

Books
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Full Spectrum Dominance. Self-published. Edition of 95 copies.

Awards

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions
  • For most of it I have no words. Side Gallery, Newcastle. June–August 1999.[19]

Group exhibitions

Collections

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

References
  1. "Simon Norfolk". 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. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  4. "SIMON NORFOLK – calamita/à". calamitaproject.com. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  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. "London Photography Exhibitions". jfFrank. 28 April 2016. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
  8. Norfolk, Simon (28 June 2013). "Prix Pictet: Simon Norfolk in Afghanistan". London: Financial Times. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  9. "Search the Collection". Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  10. "Simon Norfolk: born 1963". Tate Modern. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  11. Searle, Adrian (4 February 2003). "Love and rockets". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
  12. "Past Recipients". International Center of Photography. 16 May 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
  13. "1st place, Simon Norfolk, UK | World Photography Organisation". www.worldphoto.org (in Italian). Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  14. "The Photographers Awards 2012". www.the-aop.org. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  15. "Simon Norfolk: Body of Work". Prix Pictet. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  16. "Simon Norfolk, UK, 1st Place | World Photography Organisation". www.worldphoto.org. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  17. LensCulture, Simon Norfolk |. "When I Am Laid In Earth: Mapping with a Pyrograph - Interview with Simon Norfolk | LensCulture". LensCulture. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  18. "2016 Winners | British Archaeological Awards". www.archaeologicalawards.com. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  19. "For most of it I have no words", Amber Online. Archived by the Wayback Machine on 7 March 2016.
  20. Searle, Adrian (4 February 2003). "Love and rockets". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  21. Celebrating 50 Years of the Association of Photographers,' London, UK.
  22. "The North Gate of Baghdad (After Corot)". International Center of Photography. 3 March 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
  23. Norfolk, Simon (2003), The North Gate of Baghdad, retrieved 27 December 2017
  24. Norfolk, Simon (2003), King Amanullah's 1919 Victory Arch at Paghman, retrieved 27 December 2017
  25. "Henry Art Gallery".
  26. "Thirty large format c-type colour prints by Simon Norfolk".
  27. "Search". SFMOMA. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  28. "ACM". www.cartermuseum.org. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  29. "Search | LACMA". www.lacma.org. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  30. "You searched for - Wolverhampton Arts & Culture". www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  31. "Afghan refugees at Jalozai camp, Peshawar, Pakistan". Archived from the original on 29 December 2017.
  32. "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.
  33. "Date Grove, Haifa Street, Baghdad | Cleveland Museum of Art". www.clevelandart.org. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  34. "The Bombed, Burned, and Looted Ministry of Planning, Baghdad | Milwaukee Art Museum". collection.mam.org. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  35. "Portland Art Museum | Online Collections". www.portlandartmuseum.us. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  36. "Results | Search Objects | George Eastman Museum". collections.eastman.org. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  37. "Search - Hyman Collection - British Photography". www.britishphotography.org. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
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