𝗦𝗶𝗺𝗼𝗻 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗸, 𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿

Err..like....wow!? My picture of the Large Hadron Collider from 2007 is considered one of the best of the century so far by The Guardian today. To be rated anywhere near the picture of little Aylan Kurdi drowned on a Turkish Beach or the hooded Iraqi prisoner with his son? Well, I’m a bit astounded TBH. “Seeing the Large Hadron Collider at the CERN laboratory in Switzerland, I was amazed that it resembled the view one has bending one’s neck back and looking up into the cupola of an English cathedral, or the domes of the mosques I once photographed in Isfahan or Istanbul. In vast, columned chambers, the blades of the LHC were being assembled in an atmosphere of methodical, industrial piety. But when I made the final prints of the pictures, they seemed to resemble crop circles or Tibetan mandalas. One of the disks is even fronted by a massive, Stonehenge-like trilithon.” Follow @simonnorfolkstudio for updates, outtakes, unpublished and archive material. @simonnorfolkstudio #LHC #largehadrincollider #21stCenturyPhotos @benrubi_gallery @michaelhoppengallery @galleryluisotti

Today marks a whole year already since the death of my friend Paul Lowe. If you can, spare a moment today to remember him and think of his wife Amra. I cycled to Cambridge as part of The Paul Lowe Challenge and then over half of Bosnia with the crew in this picture. I did it all on Paul's old bike. I fell off and smashed my face into a rock (6 stitches!) which Paul would have found hilarious. If I owe you a print from the Just Giving page, especially those who donated anonymously, can you send a postal address to [email protected].

… To Clare College Cambridge to check the final part of the route of the paullowechallenge. Clare is covered in scaffolding as it prepares to celebrate its 700th anniversary. More importantly, Paul read History there and it will be the target of our 100km ride.’ #paullowechallenge @paullowechallenge @paullowephotography

The Tom Stoddard Award for Excellence... There’s a huge pot of money here for documentary photographers: £5,000 to finish a project and a £23,000 book deal with @GOST_Books   –  I’ve been told there have not been enough entries – 2 weeks to go! The call for entries runs until 31 August 2025. see: site.picter.com/ippg-tomstoddart-gost-photobook-grant-2025 or visit: @tomstoddphotos @ianparrygrant photo © Tom Stoddard @simonnorfolkstudio #documentaryphotography #simonnorfolk #Competition #award #photoprize #TomStoddard#GOSTbooks @tomstoddphotos @ianparrygrant @GOST_Books @harriet.l Any questions?  email: [email protected]

Thanks to all those who have responded to this charity fund-raising event in Paul’s memory … If you could also please help by sending out the links below to your own followers and networks. We need more riders for 21 September, and we need to raise more money… Specifically this part: /events/london/ This is what I’ve written about what Paul meant to me: /page/simon-norfolk-1 ✨Thanks✨ 🙌🏻

I am cycling 100km in memory of my good friend Prof. Paul Lowe who was murdered last year. We will ride from the college where Paul ended up as Professor in photography in south London to the college where he started out, reading undergraduate history, Clare College, Cambridge. I am supporting the Paul Lowe Fund. It will fund the professional training of photojournalists from under-represented countries. And a part will be for helping PTSD affected photojournalists. Both of these are causes Paul cared about very much. I like cycling and I feel a slob asking for you to pay for my fun, so in return for backing the Challenge, you have the unique chance to own an original Simon Norfolk print. What I’m offering in return for your support: A signed 10”x8” print on Fuji Crystal Archive paper made by my lab, Spectrum in Brighton. The print will have the stamp on the back of the Paul Lowe Challenge. It will be uneditioned. See the comments on this post for further details. The picture is from my book about Bosnia, 'Bleed,' from 2005. It's full title is 'The waste pond at the Karakaj aluminium factory complex. In the afternoon and evening of 14th July 1995, hundreds of muslim Bosniac men and boys were forced into trucks and taken to the aluminium plant and executed.’ Paul helped a lot on that project of course. The first time I went to the location I was arrested. I knew if I returned when the lake iced over I would get a stronger colour of red from the aluminium waste and a much better metaphor. Paul helped me figure out a way in through the back of the site. We hoped it would be too cold for security to be out patrolling. @simonnorfolkstudio #simonnorfolk #PaulLowe #JustGiving #PaulLoweChallenge @paullowephotography

Join me at Barcelona Photo Center in June … “You can now submit your candidacy for the workshop ‘Clarify your Vision: How to Make Your Photographic Project Stand Out’. Over 4 sessions at the KBr Photography Center in Barcelona, Simon Norfolk, (winner of two World Press Photo Awards and three Sony World Photography Awards) will accompany you, to help you reimagine and direct your project, from inception to fruition.” Find out more and apply to take part in the workshop via the link in the bio at @kbrfmapfre Deadline for applications: May 30 (2025) Workshop Dates: 19 - 22 June 2025 AT: KBr Fundación MAPFRE (Barcelona Photo Center) Avenida del Litoral 30, 08005 Barcelona, Spain @kbrfmapfre   @Simonnorfolkstudio   #documentaryphotography  #simonnorfolk #Barcelona #photographyseminars  #TallerFotografíaKBr #SimonNorfolk  #KbrBarcelona #FotografíaContemporánea  #contemporaryphotography #photographytuition #photojournalism #photodocumentary #GetRealKBr #photographycourse #studyphotography @michaelhoppengallery   @benrubi_gallery @galleryluisotti

One month to go until Civilization: The Way We Live Now opens in Munich at the Kunsthalle München … “Never have more people lived on Earth, never has our impact on the planet been greater, never have we been more closely interconnected than today—moreover, our society is changing at an ever-increasing pace. Civilization: The Way We Live Now follows humanity’s visible traces around the globe from the perspective of more than 100 internationally renowned photographers. The exhibition sheds light on various aspects of our highly complex coexistence—from humankind’s great achievements to our collective failures.” This image (amongst photographs featured at the exhibition): The supercomputer Mare Nostrum at the Supercomputing Centre in Barcelona was installed in the nave of an old church for better cooling. Among other things, the computer was used for modelling the wing shapes of fighter jets, a task that requires enormous energy, in 2006. Civilization: Wie wir heute leben  in die Kunsthalle München ein. Munich, Germany.  From 11 April –24 August 2025. Follow @simonnorfolkstudio for updates, outtakes, unpublished and archive material. @simonnorfolkstudio @michaelhoppengallery @benrubi_gallery @galleryluisotti #documentaryphotography #simonnorfolk #TheWayWeLiveNow #exhibition #marenostrum #supercomputer #BarcelonaSupercomputingCentre #BarcelonaSupercomputingCenter #Munich #KunsthalleMünchen #photographyexhibitions #CivilizationWiewirheuteleben

On this day (9 February) in 1959 the first Intercontinental Ballistic Missile strategic unit became operational at Plesetsk in north-west Russia. During the Cold War, both the US and the Soviet Union developed inter-continental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), that were capable of reaching any target in each other’s territory. ICBMs could deliver nuclear weapons in a manner that was theoretically immune to defensive measures. The era of Mutually Assured Destruction commenced on this day sixty-six years ago. Here an unarmed Minuteman III nuclear missile with a National Nuclear Security Administration experiment on board, is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The missile’s single unarmed warhead travelled 5250 miles to a target area just off Guam in less than 30 minutes. Follow @simonnorfolkstudio for updates, outtakes, unpublished and archive material. @michaelhoppengallery @benrubi_gallery @galleryluisotti @natgeo #coldwar #war #warfare #fullspectrumdominance #nuclearmissile #ICBM #photojournalism #journalism #documentaryphotography #simonnorfolkstudio #simonnorfolk #documentary #lensculture #apocalypse #visualarchitects  #socialdocumentary

📷 Can photographs tell the truth? We asked four photojournalists! 📹 Check out the latest video on our Channel where we chatted to photographers and photojournalists, Guy Martin, Anastasia Taylor-Lind, Edmund Clark and Simon Norfolk about their work on display in our current exhibition, The Camera Never Lies: Challenging images through the Incite Project. The dynamic exhibition from the Incite Project (showing until 20 October) re-evaluates the most iconic images of the past 100 years, and explores the impact and influence photography has had on shaping the narrative of major global events. Watch the video on our Channel now via the link in bio. #SainsburyCentre #LivingArtSharingStories #WhatIsTruth #InciteProject #Channel #Video #Photography #Photojournalism @mrguymartin @anastasiatl @edmund_clark @simonnorfolkstudio

“If you’re in Afghanistan’s Central Highlands in May, you’ll be there for the Disaster Season.” This unexpected comment about the destructiveness of melting snow in Afghanistan’s Central Highlands led multi award-winning photographer Simon Norfolk (@simonnorfolkstudio ) to document the region over the span of a year, noting a fifth season had been added into the timeframe between winter and spring: the Disaster Season. “Afghanistan seems uniquely placed to find Time’s thick layeredness, history piled on history, each invading Empire built upon the detritus and char-layer of the defeated Empire before. And just as a tectonic shift exposes fossil beds, I want to seek out Afghan history’s ‘landslides’ that expose those time slices. I’ve always thought of myself as more of an archaeologist than a photographer.” - Simon Norfolk Norfolk has spent more than two decades photographing the aftermath of conflict in Afghanistan following the US invasion in 2001. He takes a critical view of imperial ambitions in a country that has experienced multiple failed attempts to conquer it, from Alexander the Great’s army to the British, Soviet and American. See these incredible works now in our newest exhibition, ‘The Camera Never Lies: Challenging Images through The Incite Project’. Find out more about the exhibition at the link in bio. #SainsburyCentre #WhatIsTruth #SimonNorfolk #Photography #PhotographyExhibition #Exhibition

Gallery Luisotti in Los Angeles today opens a new exhibition featuring images from my series,  ‘Refuge:  The First Safe Place’ “Shelters   & Shacks” May  25–July 6, 2024 GALLERY LUISOTTI 818  South Broadway    10th floor, Los Angeles, CA 90014 (Check for opening hours) Here photographed in October 2003: Palestinian refugee camp at Burj el-Barajneh in Beirut.  Palestinians have been refugees in the Lebanon since 1948. Some are third generation. The alleyway leading between the buildings in the centre, bottom of this picture, is one of the camp’s main thoroughfares, which are grossly overcrowded because of limits placed on the expansion of the camp. The only option is to build higher. Follow @simonnorfolkstudio for updates, outtakes, unpublished and  archive material. @simonnorfolkstudio @galleryluisotti @natgeo @michaelhoppengallery @benrubi_gallery #documentaryphotography #simonnorfolk #refugees #exhibition #Palestinian #Beirut #Lebanon