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Simon Norfolk

born 1963

The Museum of the Jihad, Herat. A diorama illustrating the city rising up against the Soviets. 2011
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66 artworks by Simon Norfolk
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Biography

Simon Norfolk (born 1963) is a Nigerian-born British architectural and landscape photographer. He has produced four photo book monographs of his work. He lives and works in Brighton & Hove. He also lived in Kabul. His work is featured regularly in the National Geographic, the New York Times Magazine and the The Guardian Weekend.

Norfolk has won the Prix Dialogue de l'Humanite award at Rencontres d'Arles, in 2005, 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 the International Center of Photography, in 2004. In 2003 he was shortlisted for the Citibank Prize (now known as the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize), and in 2013 he won the Prix Pictet Commission. His works have been collected in museums like the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Tate Modern, London.

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Artworks

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  • The remains of the trolleybus terminus at Gulf Bagrami

    Simon Norfolk
    2001–2
  • Controlled destruction by the Halo Trust of US cluster bombs dropped in error on the civilian village and orchards of Aqa Ali-Khuja, Shomali Plain north of Kabul

    Simon Norfolk
    2001–2
  • A government building close to the former Presidential palace at Darulaman, destroyed in fighting between Rabbani and the Hazaras in the early 1990s

    Simon Norfolk
    2001–2
  • Bullet-scarred apartment building and shops in the Karte Char district of Kabul. This area saw fighting between Hikmetyar and Rabbani and then between Rabbani and the Hazaras

    Simon Norfolk
    2001–2
  • Bullet-scarred outdoor cinema at the Palace of Culture in the Karte Char district of Kabul

    Simon Norfolk
    2001–2
  • The swimming pool of the destroyed Presidential palace at Darulaman

    Simon Norfolk
    2001–2
  • King Amanullah’s Victory Arch built to celebrate the 1919 Independence from the British, Paghman, Kabul Province

    Simon Norfolk
    2001–2
  • Unreparable Military Equipment at Qual-Y-Shanan

    Simon Norfolk
    2001–2
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