Stuart Franklin

Stuart Franklin (born July 16, 1956 in London ) is a British photojournalist .

Life

Stuart Franklin studied photography at West Surrey College of Art and Design and received a PhD in geography from the University of Oxford . From 1980 to 1985 he worked as a correspondent for the Sygma agency in Paris. Since 1990 he has been a member of Magnum Photos , which he chaired from 2006 to 2009. Since 1990 he has shot more than twenty reportages for National Geographic .

During the massacre at Tian'anmen Square in 1989, Franklin photographed the demonstrator, later known as Tank Man , who was stopping the line of tanks. With this photo, Franklin won third prize in the Current Reporting category in the Press Photo of the Year election .

Awards

• 1985: Christian Aid Award for humanitarian photography
• 1987: Tom Hopkinson Award for Photojournalism
• 1989: World Press Photo Award for spot news stories, third prize
• 1997: Gibbs Prize for geography, University of Oxford

Publications

• The Time of Trees , Leonardo Arte, Milano, 1999, ISBN 8883100581
• La Città Dinamica , Mondadori, Milano, 2003, ISBN 8837021186
• Sea Fever , Bardwell Press, Oxford, 2005, ISBN 0-9548683-4-X
• Afrique Hotel , Dewi Lewis, Manchester, 2007
• Footprint: Our Landscape in Flux , Thames and Hudson, 2008, ISBN 978-0-500-54364-1

See also

• Tank man

Web links

• Magnum Photos portfolio and biography
• Stuart Franklin's website
• Interview about his photograph of a man in front of a tank on Tiananmen Square, 1989.
• Tiananmen Square photo and description

Individual evidence

1. ↑ National Geographic
2. ^ 1989, Stuart Franklin, 3rd prize, Spot News stories at worldpressphoto.org, accessed June 2, 2015
3. ^ Bardwell Press
4. ↑ Thames and Hudson ( Memento of the original from January 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.