Photographer Simon Norfolk's anger about what's happening in the Afghanistan war is expressed through his pictures. The beauty, he says, is just a vehicle.
www.simonnorfolk.com
9 May 2011
In October 2010, Simon Norfolk began a series of photographs in Afghanistan, taking his cue from the work of nineteenth-century British photographer John Burke, who photographed the second Anglo-Afghan war, 1878-1880.
"The reason I am here, is to articulate my anger about what's happening in this war, and the brutality that's being visited on Afghanistan by barbarians, imperialists. The beauty is just a vehicle. If I thought I could get across the points I want to make without beauty, then I would dump beauty tomorrow.
"Ten sorry, miserable years have gone by. Ten years of warfare, tens of thousands of Afghans murdered, lots of Europeans and Americans killed as well, half a trillion dollars spent, billions wasted, and nothing achieved, nothing, nothing, nothing achieved." See also: www.simonnorfolk.com
