Simon Norfolk

Simon Norfolk (born 24 January 1963) is a Nigerian-born British architectural and landscape photographer. 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.

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, the Foreign Press Club of America Award, European Publishers Award for Photography and an Infinity Prize from the International Center of Photography, in 2004. In 2003 he was shortlisted for the Citibank Prize

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. 2003: Overseas Press Club of America, Olivier Rebbot Award 2004: Infinity Prize, International Center of Photography 2005: Prix Dialogue de l'Humanite award, Rencontres d'Arles 2012: World Press Photo, Portraits, 3rd prize 2012: Sony World Photography Awards, Professional Competition, People, 1st place 2012: Association of Photographers, Gold Award, Non-commissioned Project 2013: Prix Pictet Commission 2015: Sony World Photography Awards, Professional Competition, Landscape, 1st place 2015: LensCulture Earth Awards, Series Winner, Fine Art / Conceptual 2016: British Archaeological Awards, Best Public Presentation (for "Under London," National Geographic Magazine) 2020 Shifting Foundation Grant

Exhibitions Solo exhibitions For most of it I have no words, Side Gallery, Newcastle, June–August 1999

Group exhibitions Afghanistan: Chronotopia, part of The Citibank Prize, The Photographers' Gallery, London, 2003. Prix Pictet Commission photographs, Somerset House, London, 10–27 October 2013.

Publications For Most of It I Have No Words: Genocide, Landscape, Memory. Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 1998. . Afghanistan. Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2002. . Afghanistan: Chronotopia. Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2002. . Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2005. Bleed. Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2005. . 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. . 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 Cleveland Museum of Art George Eastman Museum, Rochester Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle Hyman Collection, London International Center of Photography (ICP) Los Angeles County Museum of Art Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Milwaukee Art Museum Museum of Fine Arts, Houston National Media Museum, Bradford Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City Portland Art Museum San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri Tate Modern, London Wolverhampton Art Gallery