HOST Gallery

Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin present Fig.

press@hostgallery.co.uk (HOST Gallery) — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 14:06:20 PST

Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin have been photographing together for more than nine years. Their work has been exhibited internationally and they are the recipients of numerous awards including a Royal Photographic Society award in 2005. Publications include Trust (2000), Ghetto (2003), Mr Mkhize's Portrait (2004) and Chicago (2006).

Their latest project, Fig. is published by Photoworks and Steidl.

Originally conceived as an exhibition and book combining text and images, Adam and Oliver presented the work in front of a live audience for the first time at HOST Gallery in July 2007.

Click here to view Fig.

Simon Norfolk (Video Part 2)

press@hostgallery.co.uk (HOST Gallery) — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 07:18:52 PDT

Simon Norfolk answers questions from the audience after a talk at Host Gallery 31st May 2007.

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Simon Norfolk (Video Part 1)

press@hostgallery.co.uk (HOST Gallery) — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 07:18:22 PDT

Photographer Simon Norfolk discusses his work in a talk at Host Gallery 31st May 2007.

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Simon Norfolk was born in Lagos in 1963 and studied Philosophy and Sociology before completing the Documentary Photography course in Newport, South Wales. From 1990 to 1994 he was the staff photographer for Living Marxism, for whom he covered issues such as the British National Party, Northern Ireland, the Poll Tax, Eastern Europe at the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Gulf War. He abandoned photo-journalism in 1994 in favour of landscape photography and his first book 'For Most Of It I Have No Words' dealing with sites of twentieth-century genocide was published in 1998. He came to prominence for his next body of work, 'Afghanistan: Chronotopia', for which he received a Silver Award from the Association of Photographers in 2002 and was nominated for the Citibank Photography Prize in 2003.

Norfolk has since won The Infinity Award from the International Center for Photography, New York, in 2004 for his series on refugee camps, Le Prix Dialogue at Les Rencontres d’Arles, 2005, and The Association of Photographers’ Document prize and silver award, 2006. His work is held in the collections of The Hayward Gallery, London; the British Council; the Houston Museum of Fine Arts; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

You can see more of his work at www.simonnorfolk.com

Signed copies of his books are available to buy at www.foto8.com/bookshop

Simon Norfolk (Audio Part 2)

press@hostgallery.co.uk (HOST Gallery) — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 07:16:29 PDT

Simon Norfolk answers questions from the audience after a talk at Host Gallery 31st May 2007.

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Simon Norfolk (Audio Part 1)

press@hostgallery.co.uk (HOST Gallery) — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 07:15:51 PDT

Photographer Simon Norfolk discusses his work in a talk at Host Gallery 31st May 2007.

Mp3

Simon Norfolk was born in Lagos in 1963 and studied Philosophy and Sociology before completing the Documentary Photography course in Newport, South Wales. From 1990 to 1994 he was the staff photographer for Living Marxism, for whom he covered issues such as the British National Party, Northern Ireland, the Poll Tax, Eastern Europe at the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Gulf War. He abandoned photo-journalism in 1994 in favour of landscape photography and his first book 'For Most Of It I Have No Words' dealing with sites of twentieth-century genocide was published in 1998. He came to prominence for his next body of work, 'Afghanistan: Chronotopia', for which he received a Silver Award from the Association of Photographers in 2002 and was nominated for the Citibank Photography Prize in 2003.

Norfolk has since won The Infinity Award from the International Center for Photography, New York, in 2004 for his series on refugee camps, Le Prix Dialogue at Les Rencontres d’Arles, 2005, and The Association of Photographers’ Document prize and silver award, 2006. His work is held in the collections of The Hayward Gallery, London; the British Council; the Houston Museum of Fine Arts; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

You can see more of his work at www.simonnorfolk.com

Signed copies of his books are available to buy at www.foto8.com/bookshop