10.12.11 - 04.02.12
Burke + Norfolk
Photographs from the War in Afghanistan by John Burke and Simon Norfolk
Invitation
OPENING EVENT & PHOTOGRAPHERS TALK
Saturday 10 December . Side Gallery . 2pm . Free . All Welcome
Side is very pleased to announce that the 'Burke + Norfolk' exhibition, which first opened in May this year at the Tate Modern, is travelling to Newcastle and will be hosted by Side Gallery from 10th December 2011 - 4th February 2012.
You are warmly invited to the exhibition opening event and photographers talk.
This is an excellent opportunity to hear renowned contemporary photographer Simon Norfolk introduce the exhibition and discuss his work.
As usual, complementary snacks & drinks will be provided and no booking is required.
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Burke + Norfolk
Photographs from the War in Afghanistan by John Burke and Simon Norfolk
The first ever photographs to be taken in Afghanistan were made by the Irish photographer John Burke (1843?-1900). His eloquent images form an extraordinary record of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880), yet today he is virtually unknown.
Simon Norfolk recognised in Burke’s photographs a humane and critical eye for the British colonial project and in 2010 travelled to Afghanistan in order to follow in his footsteps.
In what he terms a collaboration with his Victorian forerunner, Norfolk engaged in a kind of rephotography.
Burke’s diverse photographic output included landscapes, battlefields, archaeological sites, street scenes, portraits of British officers and ethnological group portraits of Afghans. Rather than artificially re-staging these compositions exactly, Norfolk identified contemporary equivalents, researching and travelling to Burke’s vantage points and developing a digital version of his wet plate technique.
As the singular ‘War’ in the exhibition title implies, Norfolk’s project is in part an indictment of the unrelenting impact of conflict and imperialism on the landscape and people of Afghanistan over the past 130 years. The echoing images that result from his partnership with Burke highlight points of continuity and change from either side of the twentieth-century in the war-ravaged country.
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Book
To accompany the exhibition a new book named Burke + Norfolk:
Photographs From The War in Afghanistan published by Dewi Lewis Publishing
£40.00, quarterbound large-format hardback 168 pages, 100 colour & duotone plates 290mm x 365mm ISBN: 978-1-907893-11-7
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www.simonnorfolk.com
Image Captions top to bottom:
1. Afghan police trainees being taken to the firing ranges by US Marines, Camp Leatherneck, Helmand.
2. Afghan Police being trained by US Marines, Camp Leatherneck, Helmand.
3. There are 16,000 US Marines aboard Camp Leatherneck spread over 1,600 acres. Empty
shipping containers are used as storage, wind breaks or blast walls. In May 2010 a
mysterious fire, that may have been sabotage, destroyed 9 acres of containers. It burned
so furiously fire fighters even lost two of their fire engines. Camp Leatherneck, Helmand.
4. Burke & Norfolk book
5. Ferris wheel on wasteland in the Mikrorayon housing complex built during the Soviet era, Kabul.
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