Stuart Franklin (born 1956) is a worldwide known photographer and former president of Magnum Photos (2006 - 2009).[1] He was born at Guys Hospital, London.
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Education
Franklin studied drawing under Leonard McComb in Oxford and Whitechapel, London, and from 1976 - 1979 photography at West Surrey College of Art and Design, where he graduated with a BA. Moreover, between 1995 and 1997, he studied geography at Oxford University, first receiving a BA and the Gibbs Prize for geography and in 2001 a DPhil.
Career
From 1980 until 1985, he worked with Agence Presse Sygma in Paris. During that time he photographed the civil war in Lebanon, unemployed people in Britain, famine in Sudan and the Heysel Stadium disaster.
Joining Magnum Photos in 1985[1], he became a full member in 1989. In the same year, Franklin photographed the uprising in Tiananmen Square and shot one of the "tank man" photographs.[2][3]
He worked on about twenty stories for National Geographic Magazine between 1991 and 2009.[4]. In addition, he worked on book and cultural projects.[5] In October 2008, his book Footprint: Our Landscape in Flux[6] was published internationally to great acclaim by Thames & Hudson. A stunning yet ominous photographic document of Europe’s changing landscape, it highlights Stuart's deep ecological concern.
Books
- Tiananmen Square - published privately by Black Sun, London, 1989
- The Time of Trees, Leonardo Arte, Milan, 1999[7]
- La Città Dinamica, Mondadori Electa, Milan, 2003 [8]
- Sea Fever, The Bardwell Press, Oxford, 2005 [9]
- Hotel Afrique, Dewi Lewis, Stockport, 2007 [10]
- Footprint - Our landscape in Flux, Thames & Hudson, London, 2008 [11]
References
- ^ a b www.magnumphotos.com
- ^ www.economist.com/audiovideo/tiananmen
- ^ http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/2009/tiananmen_20_franklin/
- ^ www.nationalgeographic.com
- ^ www.stuartfranklin.com
- ^ http://www.thamesandhudson.com/en/1/9780500543641.mxs?cf1d1ed3c1e094864e653922da03b439&0&0&0
- ^ ISBN 88-831-0058-1
- ^ ISBN 88-30-2118-6
- ^ ISBN 0-9548683-4-x
- ^ ISBN 978-1-904587
- ^ ISBN 978-0500-543641
External links
- http://www.magnumphotos.com
- http://www.stuartfranklin.com
- [1] Interview about his photograph of a man in front of tanks at Tiananmen Square, 1989.
- http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0309/lm25.html
- [2] Footprint: Our Landscape in Flux. Thames & Hudson webpage
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