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HomeContents > People > Photographers > Simon Norfolk

Dates:  1963, 24 January -
Born:  Nigeria, Lagos
Active:  Global
Website:  www.simonnorfolk.com
 
  
The aftermath of war in Afghanistan - the destruction of the city of Kabul over successive wars has led to a strange and alienated environment where people still live among the ruins.
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2006/11/warphotography-interview-with-simon.html
Simon Norfolk interview with the BLBGBLOG (November 2006)
 
I can’t believe that photographers go into war zones dressed like soldiers! Soldiers are the people they shoot at. If I could wear a clown suit I would do it – if I could wear the big shoes and everything. I would wear the whole fucking thing.

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Selected solo exhibitions
 
2005 “Welcome to the Hotel Africa”, Lavitt’s Quay, Cork, Ireland
2005 “Refuge”, Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Cork, Ireland
2005 “Et In Arcadia Ego”, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, NYC
2005 “Eastern Bosnia and Northern Normandy”, The Photographers’ Gallery, London
2005 “Bleed”, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR, USA
2005 “Et in Arcadia Ego”, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France
2004 “Utah, Omaha, Gold, Sword, Juno.” Galerie Martin Kudlek, Köln, Germany
2004 “Scenes from a Liberated Iraq”, FotoFest, Houston, TX, USA
2004 “Scenes from a Liberated Iraq”, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA, USA
2004 “Conflicted Landscapes”, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK
2003 “Afghanistan: Chronotopia”, Benham Gallery, Seattle, WA
2003 “Afghanistan: Chronotopia”, Grand Rapids Community College, Grand Rapids, MI
2003 “Afghanistan: Chronotopia”, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, TX
2003 “Afghanistan: Chronotopia”, Fotofestival Naarden, The Netherlands
2003 “Afghanistan: Chronotopia”, The Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Ireland
2003 “Afghanistan: Chronotopia”, Belfast Exposed, Belfast, N. Ireland
2003 “Afghanistan: Chronotopia”, The Citibank Prize, The Photographer’s Gallery, London
2003 “Afghanistan: Chronotopia”, The Citibank Prize, Photo Espana, Madrid, Spain
2003 “Afghanistan: Chronotopia”, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
2003 “Afghanistan: Chronotopia”, The Citibank Prize, Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf, Germany
2003 “For Most Of It I Have No Words: Genocide, Landscape, Memory”, The Society For Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO
2002 “Afghanistan: Chronotopia”, Trace Gallery, Weymouth, Dorset, UK
2002 “Afghanistan: Chronotopia”, Minneapolis Center for Photography, Minneapolis, MN
2002 “For Most Of It I Have No Words: Genocide, Landscape, Memory” Minneapolis Center for Photography, Minneapolis, MN
2002 “Afghanistan: Chronotopia”, The British Council, London, UK
2002 “Afghanistan: Chronotopia”, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK
2002 “Afghanistan: Chronotopia”, Side Gallery, Newcastle, UK
2002 “Afghanistan: Chronotopia”, Photofusion Gallery, London, UK
2002 “Afghanistan: Chronotopia”, Hereford Photography Festival, Hereford, UK
2002 “Afghanistan: Chronotopia”, Les Recontres Arles, France
2002 “For Most Of It I Have No Words: Genocide, Landscape, Memory”, Photosynkyria, Thessaloniki, Greece
2002 “For Most Of It I Have No Words: Genocide, Landscape, Memory”, Holocaust Museum, Houston, TX
2002 “Afghanistan: Chronotopia”, Deutsches Architektur Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
2002 Afghanistan: chronotopia”, Gallerie FOTO, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
2002 “Afghanistan: Chronotopia”, Florence Photography Festival, Florence, Italy
2002 “Afghanistan: Chronotopia”, The Sani Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece
2002 “Afghanistan: Chronotopia”, The Griffin Center for Photography, Boston, MA
2002 “Afghanistan: Chronotopia”, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Köln, Germany
2002 “Afghanistan: Chronotopia”, The Halsey Gallery at The College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
2002 “Afghanistan: Chronotopia”, FotoFest, Houston, TX
2000 “For Most Of It I Have No Words: Genocide, Landscape, Memory”, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
2000 “For Most Of It I Have No Words: Genocide, Landscape, Memory”, Imperial War Museum, London
1999 “For Most Of It I Have No Words: Genocide, Landscape, Memory”, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK
1999 “For Most Of It I Have No Words: Genocide, Landscape, Memory”, The Royal Photographic Society, Bath, UK
1999 “For Most Of It I Have No Words: Genocide, Landscape, Memory”, 5th International Fototage, Herten, Germany
1999 “For Most Of It I Have No Words: Genocide, Landscape, Memory”, Side Gallery, Newcastle, UK
1999 “For Most Of It I Have No Words: Genocide, Landscape, Memory”, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
1999 “For Most Of It I Have No Words: Genocide, Landscape, Memory”, Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1998 “For Most Of It I Have No Words: Genocide, Landscape, Memory”, Impressions Gallery, York, UK
 
Selected group exhibitions
 
2004 ‘Arti & Archittettura’, Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Italy
2003 'War’ Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Spain
2003 ‘IN NATURE - The obsessive eye, the absent mind’, The 10th Turin Biennale, Turin
2003 ‘M_ARS Art and War’, Neue Gallerie Graz, Austria
2003 The Citibank Prize, The Photographers’ Gallery, London
2003 The Citibank Prize, Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf
2003 The Citibank Prize, Photo Espana, Madrid
 
Major International Prizes
 
2005 The Association of Photographers’ Bursary
2005 The Outreach Award, Les Rencontres d’Arles
2005 Grant from Aperture in conjunction with the Joy of Giving Something, Inc
2004 The Infinity Award from the International Center for Photography, New York (for the Refugee Camp work in the New York Times Magazine.)
2003 Shortlisted for the Citibank Prize
2003 The Stuttgarter Fotobuchpreis
2003 The Olivier Rebbot Award for Best International Reporting from the Foreign Press Club of America (for the Afghanistan work in the New York Times Magazine.)
2002 The 'Sani' Prize from Photosynkyria. Thessaloniki, Greece
2002 The European Publishers’ Award for Photography (for 'Afghanistan: chronotopia.')
2001 A World Press Award
2001 A Silver Award from the Association of Photographers, UK
 
Collections
 
The British Council Collection
Channel 4 TV (UK)
The Hayward Gallery, London
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Portland Art Museum
The Weismann Art Museum in Minneapolis
Wolverhampton Museum
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
George Eastman House
The Joy of Giving Something, Inc.
International Center of Photography
The Citibank Collection
The Bank of America Collection
Wilson Centre for Photography, London
Deutsche Bank Collection, Germany
Various Private and Corporate Collections
 
Commissions
 
2005 Artist in Residence to the Irish Army commissioned to produce work on Irish UN Peacekeeping operations in Liberia and Kosovo. To be exhibited at Collins Barracks, Cork and Sirius Art Centre, Cobh, part of 'Cork 2005, European City of Culture.'
2005 Joy of Giving Something, Inc Fund commission for Aperture Magazine
2004 'Coalfield Stories,’ Side Gallery, Newcastle, looking at changes in the landscape of East Durham coalfield since the end of the mining industry  
  
 

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