Simon Norfolk

Kandahar Air Field.

2011

In Tate Britain

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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: P20572

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

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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.

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Simon Norfolk Entrance to the vast City Star Hall complex of wedding halls, on the new bypass out near Kabul Airport.

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Simon Norfolk Jaw Aka Faisal Nahman and his daughter Nono from Bamiyan province, now living in an improvised plastic shelter in the ruined gardens of Darulaman Palace. Built in the 1920s to house an Afghan parliament, ‘Darul Aman’ translates as ‘abode of peace’.

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Simon Norfolk A dumping ground for an abandoned Russian-era bomber that has now been incorporated into the car park of ‘Shamshad TV’, a new media company supported heavily by American money.

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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.

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

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Simon Norfolk The Afghan Women’s National Basketball squad.

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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 Accommodation units, known as ‘pods’, for lower ranking diplomats of the British Embassy.

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

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Simon Norfolk A storage yard at Kandahar Air Field looking out beyond the wire, back into ‘Afghanistan’.

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Simon Norfolk ‘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

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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

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

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 Entrance to the vast City Star Hall complex of wedding halls, on the new bypass out near Kabul Airport.

Simon Norfolk Jaw Aka Faisal Nahman and his daughter Nono from Bamiyan province, now living in an improvised plastic shelter in the ruined gardens of Darulaman Palace. Built in the 1920s to house an Afghan parliament, ‘Darul Aman’ translates as ‘abode of peace’.

Simon Norfolk A dumping ground for an abandoned Russian-era bomber that has now been incorporated into the car park of ‘Shamshad TV’, a new media company supported heavily by American money.

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 Afghan Police being trained by US Marines, Camp Leatherneck.

Simon Norfolk The Afghan Women’s National Basketball squad.

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

Simon Norfolk Accommodation units, known as ‘pods’, for lower ranking diplomats of the British Embassy.

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

Simon Norfolk A storage yard at Kandahar Air Field looking out beyond the wire, back into ‘Afghanistan’.

Simon Norfolk ‘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 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

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