Stuart Franklin

Stuart Franklin (Great Britain, 1956) studied photography at the West Surrey College of Art and Design and geography at Oxford University, from which he received a doctorate in 2001. He has been a member of Magnum Photos since 1989, and from 2006 to 2009 was chairman of that prestigious photo agency. He photographed the rebellion on Tiananmen Square, and won several World Press Awards. During the 2009 Noorderlicht International Photo Festival he was curator of Point of No Return, a controversial exhibition of photography from the Gaza Strip.