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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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  • 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
    2011
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  • On the very northern edge of Kabul. A shipping container is re-purposed as home to men working in a yard casting concrete blast walls. Each section, when sold to foreign embassies or the military, fetches $1000 per piece.

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

    Simon Norfolk
    2011
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  • Historically, Kuchis were strongly pro-Taliban; feelings made more intense by being bombed by NATO off their traditional grazing lands in Helmand. They are allowed to set up camp here on Kabul’s periphery only because it is below a large, new Afghan Army

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

    Simon Norfolk
    2011
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  • A de-mining team from the Mine Detection Centre in Kabul with a member of the German Police who is mentoring them.

    Simon Norfolk
    2011
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  • The Political Staff of the British Embassy.

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

    Simon Norfolk
    2011
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  • The armoury of the British Embassy. The Embassy has a guard force of five hundred.

    Simon Norfolk
    2011
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  • The tennis court of the British Embassy.

    Simon Norfolk
    2011
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