Simon Norfolk
A shelter against rocket and mortar attack, Camp Leatherneck, Helmand.

A shelter against rocket and mortar attack, Camp Leatherneck, Helmand.

© Simon Norfolk / Gallery Luisotti

A shelter against rocket and mortar attack, Camp Leatherneck, Helmand.
A shelter against rocket and mortar attack, Camp Leatherneck, Helmand.
ArtistBritish, born Nigeria, 1963
CultureBritish
Titles
  • A shelter against rocket and mortar attack, Camp Leatherneck, Helmand.
  • from the portfolio Burke + Norfolk: Photographs from the War in Afghanistan
Date2010–2011, printed September 2011
Place depictedAfghanistan
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 number2016.224.104
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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Afghan police trainees being taken to the firing ranges by US Marines, Camp Leatherneck, Helmand.
Simon Norfolk
Afghan police trainees being taken to the firing ranges by US Marines, Camp Leatherneck, Helmand.
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.75
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
There are 16,000 US Marines aboard Camp Leatherneck spread over 1,600 acres. Empty shipping containers are used as storage, wind breaks or blast walls. In May 2010 a mysterious fire, that may have been sabotage, destroyed 9 acres of containers. It burned so furiously that fire fighters even lost two of their fire engines.
Simon Norfolk
There are 16,000 US Marines aboard Camp Leatherneck spread over 1,600 acres. Empty shipping containers are used as storage, wind breaks or blast walls. In May 2010 a mysterious fire, that may have been sabotage, destroyed 9 acres of containers. It burned so furiously that fire fighters even lost two of their fire engines.
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.95
One of the huge logistics compounds at Camp Leatherneck. A modern, technologized army needs hundreds of thousands of different kinds of objects in order to keep it working. A $100m warplane can be grounded for the want of a $1 part. Supplying these things is a huge drain on an army’s resources and its greatest vulnerability.
Simon Norfolk
One of the huge logistics compounds at Camp Leatherneck. A modern, technologized army needs hundreds of thousands of different kinds of objects in order to keep it working. A $100m warplane can be grounded for the want of a $1 part. Supplying these things is a huge drain on an army’s resources and its greatest vulnerability.
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.90
Security lights and communications antennae at Camp Leatherneck.
Simon Norfolk
Security lights and communications antennae at Camp Leatherneck.
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.88
Afghan Police being trained by US Marines, Camp Leatherneck.
Simon Norfolk
Afghan Police being trained by US Marines, Camp Leatherneck.
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.65
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
Historically, Kuchis were strongly pro-Taliban; feelings made more intense by being bombed by NATO off their traditional grazing lands in Helmand. They are allowed to set up camp here on Kabul’s periphery only because it is below a large, new Afghan Army base.
Simon Norfolk
Historically, Kuchis were strongly pro-Taliban; feelings made more intense by being bombed by NATO off their traditional grazing lands in Helmand. They are allowed to set up camp here on Kabul’s periphery only because it is below a large, new Afghan Army base.
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.46
Some of the Media Operations team including a Combat Camera unit, Camp Bastion, Helmand.
Simon Norfolk
Some of the Media Operations team including a Combat Camera unit, Camp Bastion, Helmand.
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.57
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
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
‘The Museum of the Jihad’, Herat. A diorama illustrating the city rising up against the Soviets.
Simon Norfolk
‘The Museum of the Jihad’, Herat. A diorama illustrating the city rising up against the Soviets.
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.96