This year's winner of the European Publishers Award for Photography is London based photographer Simon Norfolk. The work has already received massive critical acclaim and several simultaneous exhibitions are scheduled throughout the world from September 2002 in venues including Imperial War Museum North, Manchester; Hereford Photography Festival; Side Gallery, Newcastle: Photofusion, London: Trace Gallery, Weymouth: Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool; Museum of Architecture, Frankfurt, Germany; The Halsey Gallery, South Carolina, USA; Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, USA; Benham Gallery, Seattle, USA.
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'Afghanistan is unlike Sarajevo or Kigali or any other war-ravaged landscape I have ever photographed. In Kabul in particular, the devastation has a bizarre layering; the different destructive eras lying on top of each other. I was reminded of the story of Schliemann's discovery of the remains of the classical city of Troy in the 1870's; digging down, he found 9 cities layered upon each other, each one in its turn rebuilt and destroyed. Walking a Kabul street can be like walking through a Museum of the Archaeology of War - different moments of destruction lie like sediment on top of each other. There are places near Bagram Air Base or on the Shomali Plain where the front line has passed back and forth eight or nine times - each leaving a deadly flotsam of destroyed homes and fields seeded with landmines. The landscapes of Afghanistan are the scenes that I knew first from the 'Illustrated Children's Bible' given to me by my parents when I was a child. When David battled Goliath, these mountains and deserts were behind them. When Joshua fought the battle of Jericho, these fauna and flora were over his shoulders. More accurately, these landscapes are how my childish imagination pictured the Apocalypse or Armageddon; utter destruction on a massive, Babylonian scale bathed in the crystal light of a desert sunrise.' - Simon Norfolk
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Simon Norfolk's photographs have appeared in titles as varied as the New York Times Magazine, the Sunday Times Magazine, the South China Morning Post and La Republicca Magazine and in 2001 he won a prestigious World Press Award. His first book 'For Most Of It I Have No Words' (Dewi Lewis Publishing) about the landscapes of the places that have seen Genocide was published in 1998 to wide acclaim including praise from the novelist Anne Michaels and from Louise Arbour, Chief Prosecutor of the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague.
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By slother
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As an example of fine photography - it's superb. Light and structure areused with truly 'devastating' effect. As a chilling call for attention tothe consquences of our actions - it's even better. Such apparentlybeautiful scenes are soured when the fundamentally damning comments areobserved. Painful, painful irony.
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This is a highly moving monograph of Afganistan after the war. A true antidote to the photojournalistic images with which we are so familiar. A marvellous record of Simon Norfolk's reaction to the natural beauty and human suffering of the country.
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I first saw this book at an exhibition of war photographers that featured amongst others Robert Capa. The book was in a room that contained a reflection of peoples work on war. The book shone out from all the others in it's artistic content and it's attention to detail. I love this book and it always instils a sense of thought and wonder. A bargain at this price.
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