Simon Norfolk


Simon Norfolk is an architectural and landscape photographer. He has produced four monographs of work: Afghanistan: Chronotopia, published in five languages; For Most of It I Have No Words about the landscapes of genocide; Bleed about the Bosnian War; and Burke + Norfolk: Photographs from the War in Afghanistan.
Norfolk has won the Prix Dialogue de l'Humanite award at Rencontres d'Arles, 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 International Center of Photography. In 2003 he was shortlisted for the Citibank Prize, and in 2013 he won the Prix Pictet Commission. His works have been collected by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Tate Modern, London.

Life and work

Norfolk studied documentary photography at Newport College of Art. He lives and works in Brighton & Hove and Kabul.

Books

Solo exhibitions

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