Simon Norfolk

Afghan Police being trained by US Marines, Camp Leatherneck.

2011

In Tate Britain

Prints and Drawings Room

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Artist: Simon Norfolk born 1963
Part of: Burke + Norfolk: Photographs from the war in Afghanistan
Medium: Photograph, digital C-print on paper
Dimensions: Image: 366 × 488 mm
support: 381 × 507 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Presented by Simon Norfolk 2016
Reference: P20568

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Simon Norfolk Jawad, who like many Afghans uses just the one name, out playing with an old tyre in the Mikrorayan district of Kabul.

2011

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Simon Norfolk Wasteland at the back of shops used as stabling for draught horses. In the distance is the Bala Hissar citadel, now home to an Afghan army base and mooring for one of the American blimps that carry electronic surveillance gear and cameras.

2011

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Simon Norfolk A watchtower guarding a street of foreign embassies in central Kabul. For the British army these improvised fortifications are called ‘sangars’, although the term is Dari for ‘barricade’ and is one of the few words the British brought home form the Anglo-

2011

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Simon Norfolk The swimming pool that crowns Tepe Wazir Akhbar Khan, built by the Soviets in the 1970s and restored in recent times at great expense by USAID. It is uncertain if it will ever be used.

2011

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Simon Norfolk Young women in the indoor skatepark of the NGO ‘Skateistan’, set up by American volunteers to help young Afghans improve their skateboarding and indoor rock-climbing skills.

2011

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Simon Norfolk Strongly pro-Taliban refugees. For the photograph, they chose to partially cover their faces.

2011

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Simon Norfolk Her Britannic Majesty’s Ambassador Sir William Charters Patey KCMG, his private secretary and his Nepalese mercenary security guards.

2011

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Simon Norfolk Afghan police trainees being taken to the firing ranges by US Marines, Camp Leatherneck, Helmand.

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Simon Norfolk The armoury of the British Embassy. The Embassy has a guard force of five hundred.

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Simon Norfolk Watchtowers on the perimeter of Camp Bastion.

2011

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Simon Norfolk A shaded rest area built by helicoptor re-fuelling crews at Camp Bastion.

2011

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Simon Norfolk The seemingly endless number of helicopter pads and hangars at Camp Bastion.

2011

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Simon Norfolk Pakistani ‘Jingle Trucks’ end their long journey up from Karachi at the gates of Kandahar Air Field where they wait to be scanned, x-rayed and searched. Only people, ammunition and emergency requirements come by aircraft. Warlord-owned security companies

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Simon Norfolk One of the huge logistics compounds at Camp Leatherneck. A modern, technological army needs hundreds of thousands of different kinds of objects in order to keep it working. A $100m warplane can be grounded for the want of a $1 part. Supplying these things

2011

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Simon Norfolk There are 16,000 US Marines aboard Camp Leatherneck spread over 1,600 acres. Empty shipping containers are used as storage, wind breaks or blast walls. In May 2010 a mysterious fire, that may have been sabotage, destroyed 9 acres of containers. It burned

2011

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In Tate Britain

Prints and Drawings Room

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Simon Norfolk Jawad, who like many Afghans uses just the one name, out playing with an old tyre in the Mikrorayan district of Kabul.

Simon Norfolk Wasteland at the back of shops used as stabling for draught horses. In the distance is the Bala Hissar citadel, now home to an Afghan army base and mooring for one of the American blimps that carry electronic surveillance gear and cameras.

Simon Norfolk A watchtower guarding a street of foreign embassies in central Kabul. For the British army these improvised fortifications are called ‘sangars’, although the term is Dari for ‘barricade’ and is one of the few words the British brought home form the Anglo-

Simon Norfolk The swimming pool that crowns Tepe Wazir Akhbar Khan, built by the Soviets in the 1970s and restored in recent times at great expense by USAID. It is uncertain if it will ever be used.

Simon Norfolk Young women in the indoor skatepark of the NGO ‘Skateistan’, set up by American volunteers to help young Afghans improve their skateboarding and indoor rock-climbing skills.

Simon Norfolk Strongly pro-Taliban refugees. For the photograph, they chose to partially cover their faces.

Simon Norfolk Her Britannic Majesty’s Ambassador Sir William Charters Patey KCMG, his private secretary and his Nepalese mercenary security guards.

Simon Norfolk Afghan police trainees being taken to the firing ranges by US Marines, Camp Leatherneck, Helmand.

Simon Norfolk The armoury of the British Embassy. The Embassy has a guard force of five hundred.

Simon Norfolk Watchtowers on the perimeter of Camp Bastion.

Simon Norfolk A shaded rest area built by helicoptor re-fuelling crews at Camp Bastion.

Simon Norfolk The seemingly endless number of helicopter pads and hangars at Camp Bastion.

Simon Norfolk Pakistani ‘Jingle Trucks’ end their long journey up from Karachi at the gates of Kandahar Air Field where they wait to be scanned, x-rayed and searched. Only people, ammunition and emergency requirements come by aircraft. Warlord-owned security companies

Simon Norfolk One of the huge logistics compounds at Camp Leatherneck. A modern, technological army needs hundreds of thousands of different kinds of objects in order to keep it working. A $100m warplane can be grounded for the want of a $1 part. Supplying these things

Simon Norfolk There are 16,000 US Marines aboard Camp Leatherneck spread over 1,600 acres. Empty shipping containers are used as storage, wind breaks or blast walls. In May 2010 a mysterious fire, that may have been sabotage, destroyed 9 acres of containers. It burned

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