"There's a French word
which describes a necessary state for taking good pictures. It means being open and ready for the unknown, for the unforeseeable." - Richard Kalvar
A while ago I came across this great video on Simon Norfolk’s latest work in Afghanistan, Burke & Norfolk. I’ve just re-watched it and wanted to share it, it’s really insightful and thought provoking and we can really get Norfolk’s views on the war and motivations for the project.
Burke and Norfolk brings together the work of John Burke and Norfolk himself. John Burke’s photographs of the Second Afghan War of 1878-1880 were among the first ever taken in Afghanistan and more than a century later Norfolk has revisited Burke’s subject matter. The result is a historical collaboration, bringing Burke’s ethnographic portraits and battlefield plates and Norfolk’s most recent work in Helmand and Kabul which together form a delicate narrative of conflict and humanity. See below for some more examples of Norfolk’s and Burke’s images.
