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.

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Artist Simon Norfolk(British, born Nigeria, 1963)British, born Nigeria, 1963

CultureBritish

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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.
from the portfolio Burke + Norfolk: Photographs from the War in Afghanistan

Date2010–2011, printed September 2011

Place depictedAfghanistan

MediumChromogenic print

DimensionsImage: 14 1/2 × 19 1/4 in. (36.8 × 48.9 cm)
Sheet: 15 × 20 in. (38.1 × 50.8 cm)

Credit LineGift of Morris Weiner

Object number2016.224.32

Not on view

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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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