Simon Norfolk at HOST Gallery

*gnva recently produced a podcast of a talk with photographer Simon Norfolk at Host Gallery.

You can subscribe to the HOST podcast here.

Simon was born in Lagos in 1963 and studied Philosophy and Sociology before completing the Documentary Photography course in Newport, South Wales. From 1990 to 1994 he was the staff photographer for Living Marxism, for whom he covered issues such as the British National Party, Northern Ireland, the Poll Tax, Eastern Europe at the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Gulf War. He abandoned photo-journalism in 1994 in favour of landscape photography and his first book ‘For Most Of It I Have No Words’ dealing with sites of twentieth-century genocide was published in 1998. He came to prominence for his next body of work, ‘Afghanistan: Chronotopia’, for which he received a Silver Award from the Association of Photographers in 2002 and was nominated for the Citibank Photography Prize in 2003.

Norfolk has since won The Infinity Award from the International Center for Photography, New York, in 2004 for his series on refugee camps, Le Prix Dialogue at Les Rencontres d’Arles, 2005, and The Association of Photographers’ Document prize and silver award, 2006. His work is held in the collections of The Hayward Gallery, London; the British Council; the Houston Museum of Fine Arts; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

You can see more of his work at http://www.simonnorfolk.com

Signed copies of his books are available to buy at http://www.foto8.com/bookshop