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Simon Norfolk Biography
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Born in Lagos, Nigeria
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2001 |
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A Silver Award from the Association of Photographers, UK
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2002 |
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The 'Sani' Prize from Photosynkyria. Thessaloniki, Greece
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2002 |
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The European Publishers’ Award for Photography (for 'Afghanistan: chronotopia')
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2003 |
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Shortlisted for the Citibank Prize
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The Stuttgarter Fotobuchpreis
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2003 |
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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)
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2004 |
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The Infinity Award from the International Center for Photography, New York (for the Refugee Camp work in the New York Times Magazine)
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2005 |
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The Outreach Award, Les Rencontres d’Arles
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The Association of Photographers’ Bursary Award
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Lives and works in Brighton
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2007
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“Beautiful Suffering, Photography And the Traffic in Pain”.
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2007
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Williams College Museum of Art, Massachussetts, USA
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2007
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“Ingenuity” (Engineering in Photography).
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2007
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The Calouste Gulbenkian, Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
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2007
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‘Loaded Landscapes,’ Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
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2007
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‘Aftershock,’ Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art, Norwich, UK
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2007
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‘I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.’ La Médiatine, Brussels
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2007
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‘I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.’ McBride Fine Arts, Antwerp
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2007
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‘Archaeological Treasures from the Tigris Valley,’ Le Theatre Royal de Namur, Belgium
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2007
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Ogilvy and Mather, New York
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2007
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Illinois Holocaust Museum, Chicago, USA
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2007
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Break 2.4, International Art Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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2006
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‘post-doc’ Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Greece
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2006
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Night of the Museums at Stifftung Deutsche Börse, Frankfurt
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2006
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“Ecotopia” The 2nd ICP Trienial, International Center of Photography, New York
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2006
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"Long Exposures: Contemporary photo-essays from the permanent collection,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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2006
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‘Et in Arcadia ego,’ The Halsey Gallery of the College of Charleston, South Carolina, USA
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2006
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‘Et in Arcadia ego,’ Russian Academy of Fine Arts, Moscow
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2006
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‘I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.’ The AoP Gallery, London
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2006
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‘Et in Arcadia ego,’ Shanghai Art Museum
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2005
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“Welcome to the Hotel Africa”; Lavitt’s Quay, Cork, Ireland (solo)
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2005
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“Refuge”; Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Cork, Ireland (solo)
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2005
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“Et In Arcadia Ego”; Bonni Benrubi Gallery, NYC (solo)
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2005
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“Eastern Bosnia and Northern Normandy”; The Photographers’ Gallery, London (solo)
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2005
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“Bleed”; Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR, USA (solo)
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2005
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“Et in Arcadia Ego”, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France (solo)
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2004
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“Utah, Omaha, Gold, Sword, Juno.” Galerie Martin Kudlek, Köln, Germany (solo)
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2004
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“Scenes from a Liberated Iraq”; FotoFest, Houston; Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
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2004
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“Conflicted Landscapes”; The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK (solo)
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2004
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'Arti & Archittettura’, Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Italy
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2003
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‘War’ Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Spain
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2003
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‘IN NATURE - The obsessive eye, the absent mind’, The 10th Turin Biennale, Turin
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2003
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“Afghanistan: Chronotopia”; Benham Gallery, Seattle, WA; Grand Rapids Community College, Grand Rapids, MI; Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, TX; Fotofestival Naarden, The Netherlands; 2nd International Photography Festival, Rome; The Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Ireland; Belfast Exposed, Belfast, N.Ireland; The Citibank Prize, The Photographer’s Gallery, London; The Citibank Prize, Photo Espana, Madrid, Spain; Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR; The Citibank Prize, Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf, Germany (solo)
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2003
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“For Most Of It I Have No Words: Genocide, Landscape, Memory” The Society For Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO (solo)
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2003
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‘M_ARS Art and War’, Neue Gallerie Graz, Austria
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2003
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The Citibank Prize, The Photographers’ Gallery, London
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2003
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The Citibank Prize, Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf
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2003
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The Citibank Prize, Photo Espana, Madrid
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2002
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“Afghanistan: Chronotopia”; Trace Gallery, Weymouth, Dorset , UK; Minneapolis Center for Photography, Minneapolis, MN; The British Council, London, UK; Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK; Side Gallery, Newcastle, UK; Photofusion Gallery, London, UK; Hereford Photography Festival, Hereford; Les Recontres Arles, France; Deutsches Architektur Museum, Frankfurt, Germany; Gallerie FOTO, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina23; Florence Photography Festival, Florence, Italy; The Sani Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece; The Griffin Center for Photography, Boston, MA; Galerie Martin Kudlek, Köln, Germany; The Halsey Gallery at The College of Charleston, Charleston, SC; FotoFest, Houston, TX (solo)
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2002
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“For Most Of It I Have No Words: Genocide, Landscape, Memory” Minneapolis Center for Photography, Minneapolis, MN; Photosynkyria, Thessaloniki, Greece; Holocaust Museum, Houston, TX (solo)
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2000
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“For Most Of It I Have No Words: Genocide, Landscape, Memory” Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; Imperial War Museum, London (solo)
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1999
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“For Most Of It I Have No Words: Genocide, Landscape, Memory” Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK; The Royal Photographic Society, Bath, UK; 5th International Fototage, Herten, Germany; Side Gallery, Newcastle, UK; Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR; Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
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1998
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“For Most Of It I Have No Words: Genocide, Landscape, Memory” Impressions Gallery, York, UK (solo)
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