Burke + Norfolk
06 May - 10 July 2011
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Kabul 2010
© The artist
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BURKE + NORFOLK
Photographs From The War In Afghanistan
6 May – 10 July 2011
In October 2010, Simon Norfolk began a series of new photographs in
Afghanistan, which takes its cue from the work of nineteenth-century
British photographer John Burke. Norfolk’s photographs reimagine or
respond to Burke’s Afghan war scenes in the context of the contemporary
conflict. Conceived as a collaborative project with Burke across time,
this new body of work is presented alongside Burke’s original
portfolios. The exhibition takes place in conjunction with an earlier
complementary exhibition in March 2011 at the Queen’s Palace in the
Baghe Babur garden in Kabul, supported by The World Collections
Programme and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, which resulted from a
series of workshops with Afghan photographers, featuring work by Fardin
Waezi and Burke alongside Norfolk’s own work.
The Level 2 Gallery programme has been made possible with the generous support of Catherine Petitgas
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