Simon Norfolk
Afghan police trainees being taken to the firing ranges by US Marines, Camp Leatherneck, Helmand.

Afghan police trainees being taken to the firing ranges by US Marines, Camp Leatherneck, Helmand.

© Simon Norfolk / Gallery Luisotti

Afghan police trainees being taken to the firing ranges by US Marines, Camp Leatherneck, Helmand.
Afghan police trainees being taken to the firing ranges by US Marines, Camp Leatherneck, Helmand.
ArtistBritish, born Nigeria, 1963
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Afghan police trainees being taken to the firing ranges by US Marines, 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 5/16 × 19 1/8 in. (36.4 × 48.6 cm)
Sheet: 15 × 20 in. (38.1 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Morris Weiner
Object number2016.224.75
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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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Afghan Police being trained by US Marines, Camp Leatherneck.
Simon Norfolk
2010–2011, printed September 2011
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2016.224.65
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
Security lights and communications antennae at Camp Leatherneck.
Simon Norfolk
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.88
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
Waiting for a helicopter, Camp Bastion, Helmand.
Simon Norfolk
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.102