Simon Norfolk
The bazaar of Jalozai Camp, home to Afghan Refugees living near Peshawar, Pakistan

The bazaar of Jalozai Camp, home to Afghan Refugees living near Peshawar, Pakistan

© Simon Norfolk / Gallery Luisotti

The bazaar of Jalozai Camp, home to Afghan Refugees living near Peshawar, Pakistan
The bazaar of Jalozai Camp, home to Afghan Refugees living near Peshawar, Pakistan
ArtistBritish, born Nigeria, 1963
CultureBritish
Titles
  • The bazaar of Jalozai Camp, home to Afghan Refugees living near Peshawar, Pakistan
  • from the series Refuge: The first safe place
Date2003–2004, printed 2010
PlacePeshawar, Pakistan
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsImage: 19 1/4 x 24 in. (48.9 x 61 cm)
 Sheet: 23 1/8 x 28 in. (58.7 x 71.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the S. I. Morris Photography Endowment
Object number2011.256
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, California]; purchased by MFAH, 2011.
Exhibition History"WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 11 November, 2012 - 3 February, 2013.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed in ink on verso lower right inside of stamped label: Simon Norfolk
Stamped in ink on verso with additional marks in a rectangle:
printed under my direct supervision / archival digital c-type print [signature] / fecit / edition number 4/10 5-10-10

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Afghan police trainees being taken to the firing ranges by US Marines, Camp Leatherneck, Helmand.
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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.
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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.
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Wasteland at the back of shops used as stabling for draft horses. In the distance is the Bala Hissar citadel, now home to an Afghan Army base and mooring for one of the American blimps that carry electronic surveillance gear and cameras.
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Wasteland at the back of shops used as stabling for draft horses. In the distance is the Bala Hissar citadel, now home to an Afghan Army base and mooring for one of the American blimps that carry electronic surveillance gear and cameras.
2010–2011, printed September 2011
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The future home of The Afghan Cash And Carry Superstore on the road between the foreign embassies and Kabul Airport.
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The future home of The Afghan Cash And Carry Superstore on the road between the foreign embassies and Kabul Airport.
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A watchtower guarding a street of foreign embassies in central Kabul. For the British army these improvised fortifications are called ‘sangars’, although the term is Dari for ‘barricade’ and is one of the few words the British brought home from the Anglo-Afghan Wars.
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A watchtower guarding a street of foreign embassies in central Kabul. For the British army these improvised fortifications are called ‘sangars’, although the term is Dari for ‘barricade’ and is one of the few words the British brought home from the Anglo-Afghan Wars.
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Strongly pro-Taliban refugees. For the photograph, they chose to partially cover their faces.
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Some of the nonsensical property development taking place in Kabul. This district of the city, Karte Char Chateh, is remembered by Kabulis as that part of the bazaar which was burned by the British in 1842 as collective punishment for the killing of the British Envoy. The fires still burned when the British retreated two days later.
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Some of the nonsensical property development taking place in Kabul. This district of the city, Karte Char Chateh, is remembered by Kabulis as that part of the bazaar which was burned by the British in 1842 as collective punishment for the killing of the British Envoy. The fires still burned when the British retreated two days later.
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