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Simon Norfolk's book 'Afghanistan: chronotopia' is now recognised as a classic of photography. It established Norfolk's reputation as one of the leading photographers in the world and has been exhibited at more than thirty venues worldwide. In 2010 Simon Norfolk returned to Afghanistan. This time he followed in the footsteps of the nineteenth century Irish photographer John Burke, a superb, yet virtually unknown, war photographer. Burke s eloquent and beautiful photographs of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880) provide an extraordinary record. Using unwieldy wet-plate collodion negatives and huge wooden cameras he shot landscapes, battle-fields, archaeological sites, street scenes, portraits of British officers and ethnological group portraits of Afghans in what amounts to a record of an Imperial encounter. The range is tremendously broad, yet suffused with a delicate humanism. These are also amongst the first ever pictures made in Afghanistan. With this book, one hundred and thirty years too late, John Burke s time has come at last. Norfolk s new work looks at what happens when you add half a trillion US war dollars to an impoverished and broken country such as Afghanistan. Very loosely re-photographic in nature, the work is presented as an artistic collaboration between Burke and Norfolk. It features photographs by Burke never before published as well as Norfolk s new pictures from Kabul and Helmand.
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Simon Norfolk has received innumerable awards for his work including The European Publishers Award for Photography, The Olivier Rebbot Award (Foreign Press Club of America), and The Infinity Award (ICP, New York). His work is in major public and private collections throughout the world. His most recent exhibition, in March 2011, was shown at the Queen s Palace in the Barge Babur garden in Kabul. Supported by The World Collections Programme and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, it incorporated both Norfolk and Burke s photographs alongside work resulting from a series of workshops by Simon Norfolk with Afghan photographers.
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i must admit that i was sceptical about this book - the pairing of Simon Norfolk's 2010 images with those of Burke from the 1800s. I needn't have worried - rather than re-creating his Victorian forebears' images, tNorfolk's images compliment and echo those of Burke. It works brilliantly and I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
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This review is from: Burke + Norfolk: Photographs from the War in Afghanistan by John Burke and Simon Norfolk (Hardcover)
A very good collection of photos from the British era (Burke - 1870s), frequently juxtaposed with similar shots from this decade (Norfolk). My Afghan interlocutor found disconcerting the book's list of captions at the end of the book rather than with the appropriate picture. I purchased a second copy as a gift, so the binding's tendency to warp was disappointing. Those quibbles aside, the book is a handsome collection primarily of British troops and places in settings around Kabul and Kandahar. Posing recent groups in the same manner as Burke's subjects created some amusing contrasts. No great insights but some very lovely pictures.
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