Portraits, 3rd prize
Burke + Norfolk
Simon Norfolk
09 November, 2010
While working in Afghanistan during 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.
Simon Norfolk
Simon has produced four major books: For Most Of It I Have No Words (1998) about the landscapes of genocide, Afghanistan: Chronotopia (2002), 'Bleed' (2005) about the war in Bosn...
Kabul, Afghanistan
A de-mining team from the Mine Detection Centre in Kabul, with a member of the German police force who is mentoring them. 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.
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