Simon Norfolk
Waiting for a helicopter, Camp Bastion, Helmand.

Waiting for a helicopter, Camp Bastion, Helmand.

© Simon Norfolk / Gallery Luisotti

Waiting for a helicopter, Camp Bastion, Helmand.
Waiting for a helicopter, Camp Bastion, Helmand.
ArtistBritish, born Nigeria, 1963
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Waiting for a helicopter, Camp Bastion, Helmand.
  • from the portfolio Burke + Norfolk: Photographs from the War in Afghanistan
Date2010–2011, printed September 2011
Place depictedGereshk (near), Afghanistan
MediumChromogenic print
DimensionsImage: 14 3/8 × 19 3/16 in. (36.5 × 48.7 cm)
Sheet: 15 × 20 in. (38.1 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Morris Weiner
Object number2016.224.102
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
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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A shaded rest area built by helicopter re-fuelling crews at Camp Bastion.
Simon Norfolk
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.84
The seemingly endless number of helicopter pads and hangars at Camp Bastion.
Simon Norfolk
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.92
Some of the Media Operations team including a Combat Camera unit, Camp Bastion, Helmand.
Simon Norfolk
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.57
Watchtowers on the perimeter of Camp Bastion.
Simon Norfolk
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.83
Some of the palletized, instant-build accommodation blocks at Camp Leatherneck, Helmand.
Simon Norfolk
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.100
A shelter against rocket and mortar attack, Camp Leatherneck, Helmand.
Simon Norfolk
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.104
Afghan police trainees being taken to the firing ranges by US Marines, Camp Leatherneck, Helmand.
Simon Norfolk
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.75
Security lights and communications antennae at Camp Leatherneck.
Simon Norfolk
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.88
Afghan Police being trained by US Marines, Camp Leatherneck.
Simon Norfolk
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.65