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Stuart Franklin was born in London in 1956. Having left school at 16, he went on to study photography at West Surrey College of Art and Design.

His photographic career began when he started to work for the Sunday Times and Sunday Telegraph Magazine in London and later with Agence Presse Sygma in Paris. During his time at Sygma (1980–85) he absorbed the skills of news photography, and also followed Henri Cartier-Bresson’s approach to photography; as he puts it, ‘curious, gentle, surreal with beautiful compositions – his work influenced just about everything I attempted.’
In his words, ‘At Sygma photographers arrived from Algeria, Iraq and Lebanon unloading their Domke bags and their stories. Later I felt confident enough to tell my own. I covered the 1983 Nigerian exodus, the Heysel Stadium disaster, the Beirut bombing of the French and American bases, the civil war there and in Sri Lanka, the conflict in Northern Ireland and finally the 1984–85 famine in Sudan.’
In Khartoum Stuart shared a flat with Sebastião Salgado for a few weeks. Salgado worked with Magnum Photos in Paris – founded by Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour, Robert Capa and George Rodger. Stuart was invited to join in the summer of 1985, and has been a full member since 1989, serving most recently as the agency’s president, a post to which he was elected in 2006.
It was during the course of 1989 that Stuart took his acclaimed photographs in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, where a demonstration for freedom ended in a massacre. Thereafter he began to move away from news into magazine feature photography. Between 1990 and 2004 he photographed about twenty stories for National Geographic Magazine.
During this time Stuart decided to pursue a better theoretical understanding of some of the issues he confronted, by embarking a period of academic study in 1997. He graduated with a first class degree in geography from Oxford University, and went on to complete his doctoral thesis there in 2002.　 In 2005 he undertook the series of large-format photographs of Europe’s changing landscape that has led to his most recent book, "Footprint: Our Landscape in Flux" (Thames & Hudson, 2008).
During 2009 Stuart will being continuing with two projects in the UK: ‘Overground’ supported by Transport for London, and ‘Scotland’s Transitional Landscapes’ supported and funded by the Scottish National Galleries.　 Additionally, Stuart will be travelling in Mali and the Middle East.　 In the Middle East Stuart will be working on co-curating the Noorderlicht Photo Festival 2009.　 "Footprint" will be exhibited in Cannes during the Sony Photographic Awards.

Stuart’s published books include: The Time of Trees (Leonardo Arte, Milan, 1999), La Città DinamicaSea Fever (Bardwell Press, Oxford, 2005), and Hotel Afrique (Dewi Lewis, Manchester, 2007), "Footprint: Our Landscape in Flux" (Thames & Hudson, 2008). (Mondadori, Milan, 2003),