Simon Norfolk
The peripheries of the city of Kabul, especially to the north and east are endless building sites. Since most of the documentation concerning land title was lost during the war, much of this speculative and illegal construction is concerned more with establishing undisputable ‘facts on the ground’. Apartments and shops are, almost exclusively, unoccupied.
Artist
Simon Norfolk(British, born Nigeria, 1963)British, born Nigeria, 1963
CultureBritish
Titles
- The peripheries of the city of Kabul, especially to the north and east are endless building sites. Since most of the documentation concerning land title was lost during the war, much of this speculative and illegal construction is concerned more with establishing undisputable ‘facts on the ground’. Apartments and shops are, almost exclusively, unoccupied.
- from the portfolio Burke + Norfolk: Photographs from the War in Afghanistan
Date2010–2011, printed September 2011
Place depictedKabul, Afghanistan
MediumChromogenic print
DimensionsImage: 14 1/2 × 19 1/4 in. (36.8 × 48.9 cm)
Sheet: 15 × 20 in. (38.1 × 50.8 cm)
Sheet: 15 × 20 in. (38.1 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Morris Weiner
Object number2016.224.24
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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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Simon Norfolk
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.30
Simon Norfolk
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.46
Simon Norfolk
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.92
Simon Norfolk
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.10
Simon Norfolk
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.104
Simon Norfolk
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.102
Simon Norfolk
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.103
Simon Norfolk
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.100
John Burke
1878–1880, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.101
John Burke
1878, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.98
Simon Norfolk
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.77
Simon Norfolk
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.49