Simon Norfolk
Simon Norfolk was born in 1963 in Nigeria. He attended Oxford and Bristol universities and left with a degree of sociology and philosophy.
Simon Norfolk " ...is studying war, and its effects on many things: the physical shape of our cities and natural environments, social memory, the psychology of societies, and more."
"He is examining genocide; imperialism; the interconnectedness of war, land and military space; and how wars are being fought at the same time with supercomputers, satellites, outdated weapons and equipment, people on the ground, intercepted communications, and manipulated and manipulating media."
Simon Norfolk: "What these "landscapes" have in common – their fundamental basis in war – is always downplayed in our society."
"All of the work that I’ve been doing over the last five years is about warfare and the way war makes the world we live in. War shapes and designs our society. The landscapes that I look at are created by warfare and conflict."
[above]. "Storage depot for the oil-fired power station at Jiyé/Jiyeh bombed in the first few days of the [Israel-Hezbollah] war and still on fire and still dumping oil into the sea 20 days later. Seen from the Sands Rock Resort, 1 Aug 2006."
[above] "Wrecked Ariana Afghan Airlines jets at Kabul Airport pushed into a mined area at the edge of the apron," from Afghanistan: Chronotopia
[above] From: Afganistan: Chronotopia
[above] From: Shifting Landscapes
Simon Norfolk's photographs have immense clarity and detail, without the typical shock or trauma that you would expect from photographs of war.
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