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2012, Portraits , 3rd prize stories , Simon Norfolk
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Burke + Norfolk

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Soldiers of the 72nd Regiment (Duke of Albany’s Own Highlanders). A heliograph team is equipped with early Aldis lamps and signaling mirrors, used for mountain-top to mountain-top communication back to India.
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Burke + Norfolk

01 January 1878

Soldaten  des 72. Regiments (Duke of Albany’s Own Highlanders). Ein Heliografenteam verwendet frühe Aldislampen und Signalspiegel, die in Indien für die Kommunikation in den Bergen genutzt wurden. Ein Teil des Medienoperationsteams mit einer Gefechtskameraeinheit, Camp Bastion, Provinz Helmand. Die Fotos sind Teil eines größeren Projekts von Norfolk, in dem er die Rolle der Briten in Afghanistan im 19. und 21. Jahrhundert untersuchte.

Afghanistan

Soldiers of the 72nd Regiment (Duke of Albany’s Own Highlanders). A heliograph team is equipped with early Aldis lamps and signaling mirrors, used for mountain-top to mountain-top communication back to India. While working in Afghanistan during 2010 and 2011, Simon Norfolk had the idea of trying to photograph groups he felt might have been interesting to the 19th-century photographer John Burke, were he there today. Burke was in Afghanistan during the Second Anglo-Afghan War, from 1878 to 1880. The photos are part of a larger project, in which Norfolk examines the role of the British in Afghanistan in the 19th and 21st centuries.

Soldados del 72 Régimen (compuesto por los propios montañeros del duque de Albany). Un equipo heliográfico está equipado con primitivas lámparas de Aldis(proyectores de señales) y espejos de señalización utilizados para la comunicación entre cumbres montañosas con la India. Mientras trabajaba en Afganistán durante 2010 y 2011, a Simon Norfolk se le ocurrió la idea de intentar fotografíar a grupos que hubieran podido resultar interesantes al fotógrafo decimonónico John Burke. Éste estuvo en Afganistán durante la Segunda guerra anglo-afgana, de 1878 a 1880. Las fotografías forman parte de un proyecto más amplio, en el que Norfolk examina el papel de los británicos en Afganistán en los siglos xix y xxi.

 

Des soldats du 72e Régiment (Duke of Albany’s Own Highlanders). Une unité équipée des premières lampes Aldis et de miroirs de signalisation, utilisés pour communiquer d’un sommet de montagne à un autre jusqu’en Inde. Simon Norfolk a eu l’idée, pendant qu’il travaillait en Afghanistan en 2010 et 2011, d’essayer de photographier des groupes qui auraient pu intéresser John Burke, le photographe du XIXe siècle, s’il s’y était trouvé aujourd’hui. Burke était en Afghanistan pendant la deuxième guerre anglo-afghane, de 1878 à 1880. Les photos font partie d’un plus large projet dans lequel Norfolk étudie le rôle des Britanniques en Afghanistan aux XIXe et XXIe siècles.

Soldati del 72° Reggimento (gli Highlander del Duca di Albany). Una squadra eliografica equipaggiata con le prime lampade Aldis e gli specchi di segnalazione, usati per comunicare dalla cima di un monte all’altra fino in India. Mentre lavorava in Afghanistan nel 2010 e 2011, Simon Norfolk ebbe l’idea di fotografare gruppi che riteneva avrebbero potuto risultare interessanti – fosse stato ancora vivo – per John Burke, un fotografo vissuto nel 1800 che era stato in Afghanistan durante la seconda guerra anglo-afgana, dal 1878 al 1880. Le foto fanno parte di un progetto più ampio in cui Norfolk analizza il ruolo degli inglesi in Afghanistan nel XIX e nel XXI secolo.

Soldaten van het 72ste Regiment (Duke of Albany’s Own Highlanders). Een heliografisch team is uitgerust met oude morseseinlampen en seinspiegels, die werden gebruikt om van bergtop tot bergtop de communicatie met India te onderhouden. Aan het werk in 2010 en 2011 in Afghanistan kwam Simon Norfolk op het idee om groepen te fotograferen op een manier die volgens hem de 19de-eeuwse fotograaf John Burke zou hebben aangesproken als hij daar nu had kunnen zijn. Burke was in Afghanistan tijdens de tweede Brits-Afghaanse oorlog van 1878 tot 1880. De foto’s maken deel uit van een omvangrijker project, waarin Norfolk de rol van de Britten in Afghanistan in de 19de en 21ste eeuw bestudeert. 

Солдаты 72 полка шотландских горцев герцога Олбанского. Подразделение связи экипировано ранними сигнальными лампами Алдиса и зеркалами, которые использовались в Индии для передачи сигналов с одной горной вершины на другую. У работавшего в 2010-2011 годах в Афганистане Саймона Норфолка появилась идея сделать групповые фотографии, которые могли бы заинтересовать фотографа XIX века Джона Бурка, если бы он оказался там сегодня. Бурк был в Афганистане во время второй англо-афганской войны с 1878 по 1889 год. Фотографии являются частью крупного проекта, в котором Норфолк исследует роль англичан в Афганистане в XIX и XXI веках.

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Simon Norfolk

Simon Norfolk
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Simon Norfolk is a landscape photographer whose work over the last ten years has been themed around a probing and stretching of the meaning of the word ‘battlefield’ in all its forms. As such, he has photographed in some of the world's worst war zones and refugee crises, but is equally at home photographing supercomputers used to design military systems or test launches of nuclear missiles.
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