Tag: Simon Norfolk
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A Photo Student › Visura Magazine Issue 8
Intro Website of visual Artist James Pomerantz Link: http://www.aphotostudent.com/2010/03/08/visura-magazine-issue-8/ Lots of nice work on display in the new issue of Visura Magazine from Institute for Artist Management photographers including Joshua Lutz, Simon Norfolk, Paul Shambroom, Jodi Bieber and Rob Hornstra:
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“Billions wasted and nothing achieved: nothing, nothing, nothing achieved…”
Thanks @simoncroberts for turning us on to this: In October 2010, Simon Norfolk began a series of n
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Video + photobook review: Burke + Norfolk on Afghanistan Wars
Link: Already an award-winning photographer of contemporary Afghanistan, Simon Norfolk returned this time to follow the footsteps of a relatively unknown Irish war photographer, John Burke, who had documented the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880). An immensely engaging book presents the works of both photographers, as well as compelling essays that offer context to this subtle…
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How Photography’s ‘Decisive Moment’ Often Depicts an Incomplete View of Reality | January 2015 | Hillman Photography Initiative
How Photography’s ‘Decisive Moment’ Often Depicts an Incomplete View of Reality Photojournalism can be like “trying to play Rachmaninoff while wearing boxing gloves,” as former photojournalist Simon Norfolk put it. One looks for the dramatic, the iconic, the universal, and in doing so the photographer then often simplifies the situation, removing it from a specific…
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How Photography’s ‘Decisive Moment’ Often Depicts an Incomplete View of Reality | January 2015 | Hillman Photography Initiative
How Photography’s ‘Decisive Moment’ Often Depicts an Incomplete View of Reality Photojournalism can be like “trying to play Rachmaninoff while wearing boxing gloves,” as former photojournalist Simon Norfolk put it. One looks for the dramatic, the iconic, the universal, and in doing so the photographer then often simplifies the situation, removing it from a specific…
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Simon Norfolk Photos of Spain’s Economic Collapse
Failed Ambitions: Spain’s Economic Collapse Simon Norfolk’s photographs present the stark reality of Spain’s economic collapse, conveying the sense of uncertainty and foreboding that sheaths the … via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/02/slide-show-simon-norfolk-photos-of-spains-economic-collapse.html#slide_ss_0=1 Simon Norfolk’s photographs present the stark reality of Spain’s economic collapse, conveying the sense of uncertainty and foreboding that sheaths not only this…
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A Collaboration Across 130 Years
A Collaboration Across 130 Years Simon Norfolk’s pictures of Afghanistan in The New York Times Magazine involved collaboration with a 19th-century photographer. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/21/a-collaboration-across-130-years/ Late last year, Simon Norfolk traveled to Afghanistan to retrace the footsteps of John Burke, a war photographer who once covered much of the same ground. Their work is…
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PDNPulse: Former VII Director Signs Prominent Photogs to New Management Company
The artists Institute represents are Jodi Bieber, Rena Effendi, Lauren Greenfield, Rob Hornstra, Nadav Kander, Gillian Laub, James Longley, Gerd Ludwig, Joshua Lutz, Amanda Micheli, Richard Mosse, Zed Nelson, Jehad Nga, Simon Norfolk, James Pomerantz and Paul Shambroom. Link: PDNPulse: Former VII Director Signs Prominent Photogs to New Management Company
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National Trust lose high profile photographer in competition rights row.
Editorial Photographers UK says: Renowned photographer Simon Norfolk has pulled out of a major National Trust photographic project in protest over rights-grabbing terms in an associated competition run by the conservation body.
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Various comments on Various Photographs
Simon Norfolk’s presentation was very smooth, this guy has a mind you don’t want to meet in a darkened alley. How this guy gets access to the places he does is a miracle. He basically makes you want to give up photography because the rigor of his ideas sucks all the oxygen out of the…
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Video: Kathy Ryan and Simon Norfolk at NYPH
In this clip, curator Kathy Ryan and photographer Simon Norfolk talk about Norfolk’s project photographing missiles and rockets: Check it out here.