LECTURE

Cortona MASTERCLASS with Simon Norfolk

An image from my recent assignment for the Wellcome Collection on the 17th century bubonic plague outbreak in Eyam, Derbyshire…⁣
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⁣If you want to learn more about how I shoot assignments like this at night, sign up for a course I’m giving in Cortona, Italy next month ( 11-14 July 2019) – more details here: Cortona MASTERCLASS with Simon Norfolk
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⁣… After the plague returned with a vengeance in the hot summer of 1666, even burials in the local churchyard were stopped and families forced to bury their loved ones themselves on their own land. Humphrey Merrill’s solitary grave is located in a field behind his house. ⁣