Simon Norfolk
from the series Afghanistan: Chronotopia

from the series Afghanistan: Chronotopia

© Simon Norfolk / Gallery Luisotti

from the series Afghanistan: Chronotopia
from the series Afghanistan: Chronotopia
ArtistBritish, born Nigeria, 1963
CultureBritish
Titles
  • from the series Afghanistan: Chronotopia
  • The remains of the trollybus terminus at Gulf Bagrami on the outskirts of Kabul
Date2001
MediumChromogenic print
DimensionsImage: 39 7/8 × 50 in. (101.3 × 127 cm)
 Sheet: 39 7/8 x 50 in. (101.3 x 127 cm)
 Mount: 41 3/4 x 51 7/8 in. (106 x 131.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Joan Morgenstern in honor of the artist
Object number2006.69
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon]; purchased by MFAH, 2006.
Exhibition History"Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Brown Foundation Galleries, February 21 - May 9, 2010.

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‘The Museum Of The Jihad’ in Herat. In the centre of the tableau of anti-Soviet mujahedeen guerrillas is Ismail Khan, one-time Governor of Herat and minister in the national government. Mythologising their role in the Jihad helps justify their control and ownership of Afghanistan’s modern warlord economy.
Simon Norfolk
‘The Museum Of The Jihad’ in Herat. In the centre of the tableau of anti-Soviet mujahedeen guerrillas is Ismail Khan, one-time Governor of Herat and minister in the national government. Mythologising their role in the Jihad helps justify their control and ownership of Afghanistan’s modern warlord economy.
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.12
Radio Afghanistan’s new transmitters paid for by American money; broadcasting official government news and anti-Taliban security alerts.
Simon Norfolk
Radio Afghanistan’s new transmitters paid for by American money; broadcasting official government news and anti-Taliban security alerts.
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.39
A storage yard at Kandahar Airfield looking out beyond the wire, back into ‘Afghanistan’.
Simon Norfolk
A storage yard at Kandahar Airfield looking out beyond the wire, back into ‘Afghanistan’.
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.87
A storage yard at Kandahar Airfield looking out beyond the wire, back into ‘Afghanistan’.
Simon Norfolk
A storage yard at Kandahar Airfield looking out beyond the wire, back into ‘Afghanistan’.
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.99
Some of the astonishing new architecture mushrooming up in cities all over Afghanistan. Part Disney, part wedding cake; inspired by Bollywood but reverential to Greek classicism; it represents an architectless kind of architecture.
Simon Norfolk
Some of the astonishing new architecture mushrooming up in cities all over Afghanistan. Part Disney, part wedding cake; inspired by Bollywood but reverential to Greek classicism; it represents an architectless kind of architecture.
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.36
At Wasalabad high above West Kabul. It has taken 26 men from the Mine Detection Centre and four de-mining dogs more than three months to clear mines from an area the size of a few soccer pitches. Kabul’s rapid expansion has increased pressure for building land. Mined areas that were once marginal are now in demand for house construction.
Simon Norfolk
At Wasalabad high above West Kabul. It has taken 26 men from the Mine Detection Centre and four de-mining dogs more than three months to clear mines from an area the size of a few soccer pitches. Kabul’s rapid expansion has increased pressure for building land. Mined areas that were once marginal are now in demand for house construction.
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.44
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.
Simon Norfolk
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.
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.22
A view of Kabul city centre from Bala Burj.
Simon Norfolk
A view of Kabul city centre from Bala Burj.
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.49
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.
Simon Norfolk
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.
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.14
A de-mining team from the Mine Detection Centre in Kabul with a member of the German Police who is mentoring them.
Simon Norfolk
A de-mining team from the Mine Detection Centre in Kabul with a member of the German Police who is mentoring them.
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.52
Refugees from fighting between NATO and the Taliban in Nangarhar province, close to the Pakistan border, now sheltering on wasteground in Kabul.
Simon Norfolk
Refugees from fighting between NATO and the Taliban in Nangarhar province, close to the Pakistan border, now sheltering on wasteground in Kabul.
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.35
Residents of the southern suburbs of Beirut, bombed from their homes in the Israeli war against Lebanon in the summer of 2006, camping in central Beirut's parks
Simon Norfolk
Residents of the southern suburbs of Beirut, bombed from their homes in the Israeli war against Lebanon in the summer of 2006, camping in central Beirut's parks
2006
Chromogenic print
2014.901