Case StudySimon Norfolk

Simon Norfolk is a landscape photographer whose work probes the meaning of the word ‘battlefield’ in all its forms.

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Mount Kenya, the glacier line of 1934. The grave of a climber killed on the mountain in 1960. Siegmund Straubingeke. Born 6 Jan 1923, died 20 Feb 1960 © Simon Norfolk

MY RESEARCH IS PRIMARILY INFLUENCED by the conversation the media are having about the issues I’m interested in. I’m talking about photographing warfare and the things that interest me are those things that have been missed from the public narrative of, for instance, how we understand the war in Afghanistan. The first thing is to spot the ...

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