Stuart Franklin

Stuart Franklin (born 16 June 1956 ) is a British photographer. He is a member of Magnum Photos and was its President from 2006 to 2009.

Early life and education Franklin was born on 16 June 1956 at Guy's Hospital in London. He studied drawing under Leonard McComb in Oxford and Whitechapel, London, and from 1976 to 1979 photography at West Surrey College of Art and Design, where he graduated with a BA. Moreover, between 1995 and 1997, he studied geography at the University of Oxford, first receiving a BA and the Gibbs Prize for geography. He received a doctorate in Geography from the University of Oxford in 2000. earning him a World Press Photo Award.

In 1989 Franklin traveled with Greenpeace to Antarctica. He worked on about twenty stories for National Geographic between 1991 and 2009, subjects including Inca conqueror Francisco Pizarro and the hydro-struggle in Quebec and places such as Buenos Aires and Malaysia. Franklin is currently working on a long term photographic essay in Malta and Southern Europe.

Awards Christian Aid Award for Humanitarian Photography, 1985 Tom Hopkinson Award, 1987 Third prize stories, Spot News, World Press Photo Award, 1990 Feature of the Year, Medical Journalists' Association, 2021. Cover story on coronavirus in a London hospital for The Sunday Times magazine: Eye of the Storm.

Books Tiananmen Square. London: Black Sun, 1989. The Time of Trees. Milan: Leonardo Arte, 1999. . Alberi / Trees. Milan: Fondazione Nicola Trussardi / Charta, 2002. . La Città Dinamica. Milan: Mondadori Electa, 2003. . Sea Fever. Oxford: Bardwell, 2005. . Hotel Afrique. Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2007. Footprint: Our Landscape in Flux. London: Thames & Hudson, 2008. . St Petersburg. St Petersburg: Perlov Design Center, 2012. Narcissus. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2013. The Documentary Impulse. New York and London: Phaidon, 2016. Analogies. Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2019. Ambiguity Revisited: Communicating with pictures. Hanover: Ibidem Verlag. 2020. Traces. Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2023.