As such, he has photographed some of the world’s worst war-zones and refugee crises, but with equal enthusiasm, he photographs supercomputers used to design military systems or test launches of nuclear missiles. Norfolk’s work has been widely recognized internationally: he has won Le Prix Dialogue at Les Recontres d’Arles (2005); The Infinity Prize from The International Center of Photography (2004); the Foreign Press Club of America Award (2003) and was the winner of the European Publishing Award for Photography (2002). In 2003 he was shortlisted for the Citibank (Deutsche Börse) Photography Prize.