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<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>Stuart Franklin<\/div><\/h2><\/div><\/div>Artist<\/h6><\/div>Gharb, Malta<\/i><\/h6><\/div><\/div>Biografia<\/h6><\/div>Stuart Franklin has photographed some of the most important news events of the 21st century as
\nwell as producing many acclaimed personal projects. Franklin\u2019s three most recent books: Narcissus
\n(Hatje Cantz, 2013), Analogies (Hatje Cantz, 2019) and Traces (Dewi Lewis, 2023) focus on landscape
\nand memory. This work, that began in Norway in 2009, has \u2013 in parallel \u2013 led to a shift from
\nphotography back to drawing and painting.<\/p>\n
Franklin was born in London in 1956. He studied drawing and painting at Oxford Polytechnic and at
\nthe Sir John Cass School of Art under Leonard McComb RA before completing a BA in photography at
\nWest Surrey College of Art and Design.<\/p>\n
It was in 1989, then a member of Magnum Photos, that Franklin took his acclaimed photographs in
\nBeijing\u2019s Tiananmen Square, where a demonstration for freedom ended in a massacre. Between
\n1990 and 2008 he photographed about twenty stories for National Geographic Magazine.
\nHis work is held in national collections and exhibited worldwide; recent solo exhibitions: The Dogon,
\nArthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and Heiberg Cummings Gallery, New
\nYork (2010); Footprint: Our Landscape in Flux, Art Science Museum, Singapore, (2012);
\nFarmscapes, National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, (2012); Narcissus, Kunstmuseet Kube, \u00c5lesund,
\nNorway (2012); Temples of Stone at the Leica Gallery, London and Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta, (2018);
\nTraces at the Leica Gallery, Vienna (2024\/2025); Characters in Search of an Author, MPM, Valletta,
\nMalta (May \u2013 July 2026) \u2013 35 paintings, 10 etchings.<\/p>\n
Franklin has published thirteen books to date including The Documentary Impulse (Phaidon, 2016), a
\nbook popular with students, which investigates the nature of truth in reporting and the drive
\ntowards self-representation in photography. Ambiguity Revisited: Communicating with Pictures
\n(Ibidem Verlag, Stuttgart, 2020) examines the role of ambiguity in literature and art.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
Artworks<\/h6><\/div>
Artist<\/h6><\/div>Gharb, Malta<\/i><\/h6><\/div><\/div>Biografia<\/h6><\/div>Stuart Franklin has photographed some of the most important news events of the 21st century as
\nwell as producing many acclaimed personal projects. Franklin\u2019s three most recent books: Narcissus
\n(Hatje Cantz, 2013), Analogies (Hatje Cantz, 2019) and Traces (Dewi Lewis, 2023) focus on landscape
\nand memory. This work, that began in Norway in 2009, has \u2013 in parallel \u2013 led to a shift from
\nphotography back to drawing and painting.<\/p>\n
Franklin was born in London in 1956. He studied drawing and painting at Oxford Polytechnic and at
\nthe Sir John Cass School of Art under Leonard McComb RA before completing a BA in photography at
\nWest Surrey College of Art and Design.<\/p>\n
It was in 1989, then a member of Magnum Photos, that Franklin took his acclaimed photographs in
\nBeijing\u2019s Tiananmen Square, where a demonstration for freedom ended in a massacre. Between
\n1990 and 2008 he photographed about twenty stories for National Geographic Magazine.
\nHis work is held in national collections and exhibited worldwide; recent solo exhibitions: The Dogon,
\nArthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and Heiberg Cummings Gallery, New
\nYork (2010); Footprint: Our Landscape in Flux, Art Science Museum, Singapore, (2012);
\nFarmscapes, National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, (2012); Narcissus, Kunstmuseet Kube, \u00c5lesund,
\nNorway (2012); Temples of Stone at the Leica Gallery, London and Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta, (2018);
\nTraces at the Leica Gallery, Vienna (2024\/2025); Characters in Search of an Author, MPM, Valletta,
\nMalta (May \u2013 July 2026) \u2013 35 paintings, 10 etchings.<\/p>\n
Franklin has published thirteen books to date including The Documentary Impulse (Phaidon, 2016), a
\nbook popular with students, which investigates the nature of truth in reporting and the drive
\ntowards self-representation in photography. Ambiguity Revisited: Communicating with Pictures
\n(Ibidem Verlag, Stuttgart, 2020) examines the role of ambiguity in literature and art.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
Artworks<\/h6><\/div>
Gharb, Malta<\/i><\/h6><\/div><\/div>Biografia<\/h6><\/div>Stuart Franklin has photographed some of the most important news events of the 21st century as
\nwell as producing many acclaimed personal projects. Franklin\u2019s three most recent books: Narcissus
\n(Hatje Cantz, 2013), Analogies (Hatje Cantz, 2019) and Traces (Dewi Lewis, 2023) focus on landscape
\nand memory. This work, that began in Norway in 2009, has \u2013 in parallel \u2013 led to a shift from
\nphotography back to drawing and painting.<\/p>\n
Franklin was born in London in 1956. He studied drawing and painting at Oxford Polytechnic and at
\nthe Sir John Cass School of Art under Leonard McComb RA before completing a BA in photography at
\nWest Surrey College of Art and Design.<\/p>\n
It was in 1989, then a member of Magnum Photos, that Franklin took his acclaimed photographs in
\nBeijing\u2019s Tiananmen Square, where a demonstration for freedom ended in a massacre. Between
\n1990 and 2008 he photographed about twenty stories for National Geographic Magazine.
\nHis work is held in national collections and exhibited worldwide; recent solo exhibitions: The Dogon,
\nArthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and Heiberg Cummings Gallery, New
\nYork (2010); Footprint: Our Landscape in Flux, Art Science Museum, Singapore, (2012);
\nFarmscapes, National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, (2012); Narcissus, Kunstmuseet Kube, \u00c5lesund,
\nNorway (2012); Temples of Stone at the Leica Gallery, London and Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta, (2018);
\nTraces at the Leica Gallery, Vienna (2024\/2025); Characters in Search of an Author, MPM, Valletta,
\nMalta (May \u2013 July 2026) \u2013 35 paintings, 10 etchings.<\/p>\n
Franklin has published thirteen books to date including The Documentary Impulse (Phaidon, 2016), a
\nbook popular with students, which investigates the nature of truth in reporting and the drive
\ntowards self-representation in photography. Ambiguity Revisited: Communicating with Pictures
\n(Ibidem Verlag, Stuttgart, 2020) examines the role of ambiguity in literature and art.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
Artworks<\/h6><\/div>
Biografia<\/h6><\/div>Stuart Franklin has photographed some of the most important news events of the 21st century as
\nwell as producing many acclaimed personal projects. Franklin\u2019s three most recent books: Narcissus
\n(Hatje Cantz, 2013), Analogies (Hatje Cantz, 2019) and Traces (Dewi Lewis, 2023) focus on landscape
\nand memory. This work, that began in Norway in 2009, has \u2013 in parallel \u2013 led to a shift from
\nphotography back to drawing and painting.<\/p>\n
Franklin was born in London in 1956. He studied drawing and painting at Oxford Polytechnic and at
\nthe Sir John Cass School of Art under Leonard McComb RA before completing a BA in photography at
\nWest Surrey College of Art and Design.<\/p>\n
It was in 1989, then a member of Magnum Photos, that Franklin took his acclaimed photographs in
\nBeijing\u2019s Tiananmen Square, where a demonstration for freedom ended in a massacre. Between
\n1990 and 2008 he photographed about twenty stories for National Geographic Magazine.
\nHis work is held in national collections and exhibited worldwide; recent solo exhibitions: The Dogon,
\nArthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and Heiberg Cummings Gallery, New
\nYork (2010); Footprint: Our Landscape in Flux, Art Science Museum, Singapore, (2012);
\nFarmscapes, National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, (2012); Narcissus, Kunstmuseet Kube, \u00c5lesund,
\nNorway (2012); Temples of Stone at the Leica Gallery, London and Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta, (2018);
\nTraces at the Leica Gallery, Vienna (2024\/2025); Characters in Search of an Author, MPM, Valletta,
\nMalta (May \u2013 July 2026) \u2013 35 paintings, 10 etchings.<\/p>\n
Franklin has published thirteen books to date including The Documentary Impulse (Phaidon, 2016), a
\nbook popular with students, which investigates the nature of truth in reporting and the drive
\ntowards self-representation in photography. Ambiguity Revisited: Communicating with Pictures
\n(Ibidem Verlag, Stuttgart, 2020) examines the role of ambiguity in literature and art.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
Artworks<\/h6><\/div>
Stuart Franklin has photographed some of the most important news events of the 21st century as
\nwell as producing many acclaimed personal projects. Franklin\u2019s three most recent books: Narcissus
\n(Hatje Cantz, 2013), Analogies (Hatje Cantz, 2019) and Traces (Dewi Lewis, 2023) focus on landscape
\nand memory. This work, that began in Norway in 2009, has \u2013 in parallel \u2013 led to a shift from
\nphotography back to drawing and painting.<\/p>\n
Franklin was born in London in 1956. He studied drawing and painting at Oxford Polytechnic and at
\nthe Sir John Cass School of Art under Leonard McComb RA before completing a BA in photography at
\nWest Surrey College of Art and Design.<\/p>\n
It was in 1989, then a member of Magnum Photos, that Franklin took his acclaimed photographs in
\nBeijing\u2019s Tiananmen Square, where a demonstration for freedom ended in a massacre. Between
\n1990 and 2008 he photographed about twenty stories for National Geographic Magazine.
\nHis work is held in national collections and exhibited worldwide; recent solo exhibitions: The Dogon,
\nArthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and Heiberg Cummings Gallery, New
\nYork (2010); Footprint: Our Landscape in Flux, Art Science Museum, Singapore, (2012);
\nFarmscapes, National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, (2012); Narcissus, Kunstmuseet Kube, \u00c5lesund,
\nNorway (2012); Temples of Stone at the Leica Gallery, London and Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta, (2018);
\nTraces at the Leica Gallery, Vienna (2024\/2025); Characters in Search of an Author, MPM, Valletta,
\nMalta (May \u2013 July 2026) \u2013 35 paintings, 10 etchings.<\/p>\n
Franklin has published thirteen books to date including The Documentary Impulse (Phaidon, 2016), a
\nbook popular with students, which investigates the nature of truth in reporting and the drive
\ntowards self-representation in photography. Ambiguity Revisited: Communicating with Pictures
\n(Ibidem Verlag, Stuttgart, 2020) examines the role of ambiguity in literature and art.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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