Simon Norfolk
Pakistani apples for sale at a roadside market.

Pakistani apples for sale at a roadside market.

© Simon Norfolk / Gallery Luisotti

Pakistani apples for sale at a roadside market.
Pakistani apples for sale at a roadside market.
ArtistBritish, born Nigeria, 1963
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Pakistani apples for sale at a roadside market.
  • from the portfolio Burke + Norfolk: Photographs from the War in Afghanistan
Date2010–2011, printed September 2011
Place depictedAfghanistan
MediumChromogenic print
DimensionsImage: 14 5/16 × 19 1/8 in. (36.4 × 48.5 cm)
 Sheet: 15 x 20 in. (38.1 x 50.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Morris Weiner
Object number2016.224.34
Non exposé

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Object Type
ProvenanceThe artist; [Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, California]; purchased by Morris Weiner, Houston, 2012; given to MFAH, 2016.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Stamped in black ink, verso, lower right: Burke + Norfolk // Photographs from the war in Afghanistan // by John Burke and Simon Norfolk // Printed by Simon Norfolk, September 2011 // An archival, digital, chromogenic print on Fujicolor Crystal Archive // Photograph by Simon Norfolk [signed in pencil over a stamped underline] // One of 104 prints in a Burke + Norfolk portfolio special edition // Edition number 1 of eight [1 is handwritten in pencil over a stamped underline]
Norfolk prints are signed and numbered on verso lower right, within artist's stamp

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Pakistani ‘jingle trucks’ end their long journey up from Karachi at the gates of Kandahar Airfield where they wait to be scanned, X-rayed and searched. Only people, ammunition and emergency requirements come by aircraft. Warlord-owned security companies protecting convoys can charge $15,000 per truck, but a large part of the fee is paid to Taliban protection rackets.
Simon Norfolk
Pakistani ‘jingle trucks’ end their long journey up from Karachi at the gates of Kandahar Airfield where they wait to be scanned, X-rayed and searched. Only people, ammunition and emergency requirements come by aircraft. Warlord-owned security companies protecting convoys can charge $15,000 per truck, but a large part of the fee is paid to Taliban protection rackets.
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.77
An entrepreneur creates a roadside tea stall at the busy Saraj-e Shomali traffic junction. Above him are adverts for banks; a ‘win a free car’ offer from a mobile phone company and the grave of a shahid or martyr.
Simon Norfolk
An entrepreneur creates a roadside tea stall at the busy Saraj-e Shomali traffic junction. Above him are adverts for banks; a ‘win a free car’ offer from a mobile phone company and the grave of a shahid or martyr.
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.32
A cellphone booster-station built on the wreckage of buildings that once housed a market.
Simon Norfolk
A cellphone booster-station built on the wreckage of buildings that once housed a market.
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.18
An informal market in the ‘Mikrorayon 4’ housing area, covered up for the night.
Simon Norfolk
An informal market in the ‘Mikrorayon 4’ housing area, covered up for the night.
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.33
A shelter against rocket and mortar attack, Camp Leatherneck, Helmand.
Simon Norfolk
A shelter against rocket and mortar attack, Camp Leatherneck, Helmand.
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.104
Waiting for a helicopter, Camp Bastion, Helmand.
Simon Norfolk
Waiting for a helicopter, Camp Bastion, Helmand.
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.102
Preparations for a sexy dancing and comedy show organized by the Morale, Welfare and Recreation unit at Camp Leatherneck.
Simon Norfolk
Preparations for a sexy dancing and comedy show organized by the Morale, Welfare and Recreation unit at Camp Leatherneck.
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.103
Some of the palletized, instant-build accommodation blocks at Camp Leatherneck, Helmand.
Simon Norfolk
Some of the palletized, instant-build accommodation blocks at Camp Leatherneck, Helmand.
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.100
The districts of Wazir Akbar Khan and Sherpur, home to all the NGOs and contractors, occupy the site of the former British fortress from the Second Anglo-Afghan War, ‘the Cantonment’. Glitzy, kitschy ‘poppy-palaces’, flung up in a hectic property boom after the land was illegally re-possessed from squatters, can command rents of $20,000 per week when leased out to Internationals.
Simon Norfolk
The districts of Wazir Akbar Khan and Sherpur, home to all the NGOs and contractors, occupy the site of the former British fortress from the Second Anglo-Afghan War, ‘the Cantonment’. Glitzy, kitschy ‘poppy-palaces’, flung up in a hectic property boom after the land was illegally re-possessed from squatters, can command rents of $20,000 per week when leased out to Internationals.
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.22
The swimming pool that crowns Tepe Wazir Akbar Khan, built by the Soviets in the 1970s and restored in recent times at great expense by USAID. It is uncertain if it will ever be used.
Simon Norfolk
The swimming pool that crowns Tepe Wazir Akbar Khan, built by the Soviets in the 1970s and restored in recent times at great expense by USAID. It is uncertain if it will ever be used.
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.20
The whole eastern side of Kabul, for miles along both sides of Jalalabad Road is one huge logistics yard capable of supplying the foreign military and rapidly growing embassies with everything they might need from a single cup of coffee right through to an entire airstrip.
Simon Norfolk
The whole eastern side of Kabul, for miles along both sides of Jalalabad Road is one huge logistics yard capable of supplying the foreign military and rapidly growing embassies with everything they might need from a single cup of coffee right through to an entire airstrip.
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.21
Jaw Aka Faizal Nahman and his daughter Nono from Bamiyan province, now living in an improvised plastic shelter in the ruined gardens of Darulaman Palace. Built in the 1920s to house an Afghan parliament, ‘Darul Aman’ translates as ‘abode of peace’.
Simon Norfolk
Jaw Aka Faizal Nahman and his daughter Nono from Bamiyan province, now living in an improvised plastic shelter in the ruined gardens of Darulaman Palace. Built in the 1920s to house an Afghan parliament, ‘Darul Aman’ translates as ‘abode of peace’.
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.19