SimonNorfolk

Simon Norfolk was born in 1963 in Lagos, Nigeria. He went to school in England and finished at Oxford and Bristol Universities with a degree in Philosophy and Sociology. He started working for far-left publications specializing in work on anti-racist activities and fascist groups, mostly in the British National Party. Most of his work was published and/or created in London, Bosnia, Liberia, Afghanistan, Iraq, and The Netherlands. Most of the motivation for Norfolk's work came from studying war and its effect on different things: the physical shapes of cities and natural environments, social memory, and the psychology of societies. His main focus is to capture imagines in the midst of war and after war. In 1994 he gave up photojournalism in order to continue and pursue landscape photography. Now Norfolk is pursuing one of life’s “big questions” with “intensity and focused intention.” He’s studying war, and its effects on many things like the physical shape of our cities and natural environments, social memory, the psychology of societies, and a lot more. He is examining genocide; imperialism; the interconnectedness of war, land and military space; and how wars are being fought at the same time with supercomputers, satellites, outdated weapons and equipment, people on the ground, intercepted communications, and manipulated and manipulating media. He uses his photos to communicate the subject with people, and there’s a lot of emotion in his pictures. Most of his photographs are of landscapes so he can give the viewer a real life image that captures the scene of horrible experiences. Some of his contributions to photography include showing the world what is happening or has happened in society. He has published several works such as “For Most Of It I Have No Words” about the landscapes of the places that have seen Genocide; published in 1998. In 2002, Simon won a Silver Award from the Association of Photographers and his Afghan work won the European Publishing Award. This means that his book was translated in September 2002 into English, German, French, Spanish and Italian language editions. Simon Norfolk's overall objective is to get his viewers to realize what is going on in other parts of the world and how war is affecting other's lives today.

Two famous photographs include:



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Two of his famous photos are: http://www.mediaworkshop.org.uk/images/SimonNorfolkballoons%20web.jpg Called: Chronotopia. Second: Ariana http://www.mexicanpictures.com/headingeast/images/simonnorfolk.jpg