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Simon Norfolk's book Afghanistan; chronotopia is now recognised as
a classic of photography. It establised Norfolk's reputation as one
of the leading photographers in the world and has been exhibited in
more than 30 venues worldwide. For the first time since 2001, Simon
Norfolk has returned to the country. This time he follows in the
footsteps of the Irish photographer John Burke, a superb, yet
virtually unknown, war photographer whose eloquent and beautiful
photographs of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880) form a most
extraordinary record. Using unwieldy wet-plate collodion negatives
and huge wooden cameras Burke shot landscapes, battlefields,
archaeological sites, street scenes, portraits of British officers
and ethnological group portraits of Afghans in what amounts to a
record of an Imperial encounter. The range of work is tremendously
broad and yet suffused with a delicate humanism. These are also the
first ever pictures made in Afghanistan. With this book, one
hundred and thirty years too late, John Burke's time has at last
come. Norfolk's new work looks at what happens when you add half a
trillion US war dollars to an impoverished and broken country such
as Afghanistan. Very loosely re-photographic in nature, the work is
more of an 'Improvisation on a theme' by John Burke, and is
presented as an artistic collaboration between Burke and Norfolk.
It features photographs by Burke never before published as well as
Norfolk's new pictures from Kabul and Helmand.
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