Product Description
A haunting and beautiful limited edition book from the internationally respected photographer, Simon Norfolk. The war in Bosnia in the 1990s raised to common currency the terms 'ethnic cleansing,' and 'humanitarian intervention'. It brought back to Europe a barbarism not seen since the Second World War; and was the first war fought very much under the eyes of the media. It was also the first conflict fought by killers who knew, even before the war had finished, that a war crimes tribunal awaited them. Norfolk's photographs initially appear almost abstract. Yet through these still and beautiful images of ice, water, snow and the land, we can sense the arrogance of killers who believed they could conceal the brutal evidence of their crimes by reburying their victims in 'secondary graves'. But over time secrets escape, and the truth bleeds out.
About the Author
Simon Norfolk is a landscape photographer based in London. He is internationally recognised as one of the UK's leading photographers and his work has been exhibited in galleries throughout the world. His first book, 'For Most Of It I Have No Words: Genocide, Landscape, Memory' about the places where there have been genocides, was published in 1998 by Dewi Lewis Publishing. His last book 'Afghanistan: chronotopia' won the 2002 European Publishers' Award for Photography. Winner of the 2002 European Publishers? Award for Photography, Simon Norfolk won the Olivier Rebbot Award (Foreign Press Association of America) in 2003 and was shortlisted for the CitiBank Prize. In 2004, he received a prestigious International Centre of Photography Infinity Award and the Terence Donovan Award from the Royal Photographic Society. Already in 2005 he has received the Association of Photographers Bursary Award and been nominated for the Arles Outreach Award.
