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

    Simon Norfolk
    2011
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  • The future home of the Afghan Cash and Carry Superstore on the road between the foreign embassies and Kabul airport.

    Simon Norfolk
    2011
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  • The whole eastern side of Kabul, for miles along both sides of the Jalalabad Road is one huge logistics yard capable of supplying the foreign military and rapidly growing embassies with everything they might need from a single cup of coffee right through

    Simon Norfolk
    2011
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  • Kabul ‘Pizza Express’ restaurant behind the Kabul municipal bus depot.

    Simon Norfolk
    2011
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  • A view of Kabul city centre from Bala Burj.

    Simon Norfolk
    2011
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  • At a music school on Kabul, boys are taught the traditional Afghan instrument the rubab. Difficult to play, it is a skill which nearly became extinct due to the Taliban prohibition on secular music.

    Simon Norfolk
    2011
  • Afghan Police being trained by US Marines, Camp Leatherneck.

    Simon Norfolk
    2011
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  • Strongly pro-Taliban refugees. For the photograph, they chose to partially cover their faces.

    Simon Norfolk
    2011
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  • The Afghan Women’s National Basketball squad.

    Simon Norfolk
    2011
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  • Afghan police trainees being taken to the firing ranges by US Marines, Camp Leatherneck, Helmand.

    Simon Norfolk
    2011
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  • ‘Radio TV Mountain’ in the centre of Kabul seen from where the Kabul River cuts through the mountains creating the Deh Mazang gorge. In the first Anglo-Afghan War it was the site of a crucial skirmish and hasty retreat by badly outnumbered British cavalry

    Simon Norfolk
    2011
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  • 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
    2011
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