Stuart Franklin: Narcissus

by Stuart Franklin (Photographer)

Narcissus documents the two-and-a-half-year period that London-based Magnum photographer Stuart Franklin (born 1956), known for his more political photojournalistic work, spent in a cabin in Norway. Shifting his lens away from familiar urban terrain, Franklin locates abundance in a seemingly austere landscape.

152 pages, Hardcover

First published August 31, 2013

About the author

Stuart Franklin studied photography and film at West Surrey College of Art and Design and geography at the University of Oxford. During the 1980s Franklin worked as a correspondent for Sygma Agence Presse in Paris before joining Magnum Photos in 1985, where he is currently Vice President.
Franklin's best-known photograph is from Tiananmen Square, China, 1989 - a man defying a tank, for which he won a World Press award. Franklin was awarded the Tom Hopkinson Award for published photojournalism and the Christian Aid prize for humanitarian photography whilst covering the Sahel famine in 1984-5. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society.

Since 1990, Franklin has completed around twenty assignments for National Geographic Magazine. This has been work of a social documentary nature that has taken him many times to Central and South America, to China and South-East Asia, and Europe, where he recently (2002) completed a story on European unification. His other publications include The Time of Trees (Leonardo Arte: Milan, 1999) and La Citta Dinamica (Mondadori: Milan, 2003). His recent project Hotel Afrique will be exhibited from 6th October 2005 at the Pitzhanger Gallery, London.