Fotografie Forum Frankfurt
Braubachstraße 30-32, 60311 Frankfurt am Main
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SIMON NORFOLK“A NIGHT ON NIGHT”
“A NIGHT ON NIGHT”
Friday, November 7, 2025, 6 pm
Admission
5 EUR, reduced 3 EUR, for members of the FFF and students with valid ID card admission is free.
Location
Fotografie Forum Frankfurt
Braubachstraße 30–32
60311 Frankfurt
Simon Norfolk, Portrait. © Simon Norfolk, 2025
The Lewis Glacier, Mt. Kenya 1987, 2014. © Simon Norfolk, 2025
Language: English
As part of the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt’s academy program, award-winning photographer Simon Norfolk will speak about his work in the field of landscape and night photography.
The lecture will offer insights into Norfolk’s approach to light, exposure, and composition, as well as his on-location photographic practice.
In addition to technical and conceptual aspects, Norfolk will present key stages of his career and selected projects that reflect his ongoing engagement with landscape, history, and structures of power.
The lecture takes place on the evening before the two-day workshop with Simon Norfolk.
Former teahouse next to the wreckage of the old, Soviet-era 'Afghan Exhibition of Economic and Social Achievements' in Kabul. December 2001; From the series “Afghanistan: Chronotopia”. © Simon Norfolk, 2025
Simon Norfolk was born in 1963 in Lagos, Nigeria, and grew up in England. After studying documentary photography at the University of Wales, Newport, he worked as a photojournalist. Since 1994, he has focused on landscape photography, particularly exploring themes of battlefields, war, and crisis zones.
His work has received numerous awards, including the Prix Pictet Commission (2012) and the Prix Dialogue at the Les Rencontres d’Arles Festival (2005). Simon has won two World Press Photo Awards, three Sony World Photography Awards, was shortlisted for the Deutsche Bourse Prize and won a Prix Pictet Commission. He was the first British photographer to have a solo show at Tate Modern.
He shot ten years worth of assignments for the New York Times Magazine and is now a National Geographic photographer.
He receives a huge through-following from social media postings. Norfolk has published four monographs, including Afghanistan: Chronotopia (2002) and Bleed(2005, about the war in Bosnia). His work is part of major international collections, such as The Getty Museum (Los Angeles), Tate Modern (London), and the Art Collection Deutsche Börse (Frankfurt am Main). Simon Norfolk currently lives in Brighton, UK.
Over a long career Simon Norfolk has…
- Flown a helicopter into an active volcano (looking for bears) and once had to jump off a cruise ship;
- Shot two seconds of an Austin Powers movie; once punched a High Court judge and has a photograph in the fictional art collection of Bobby Axelrod in the TV show ‘Billions;’
- Has slept in a lighthouse, a shipping container, a wigwam and once in a hotel with no roof;
- Been on a nuclear submarine, commuted by tractor and once push-started a plane. He doesn’t own a car but he does own a helium balloon.
FOTOGRAFIE FORUM FRANKFURT
The Fotografie Forum Frankfurt (FFF) is one of the leading centres of photography in Europe. As an exhibition space, institution and event forum the FFF deals with all types and aspects of photography. Since its founding in 1984 it has presented more than 300 exhibitions with historic and contemporary artists. Additionally, the programme of the FFF comprises of regular workshops, talks and discussions with internationally renowned photographers, artists and experts.
