You might like Left Right The future home of the Afghan Cash and Carry Superstore on the road between the foreign embassies and Kabul airport. Simon Norfolk 2011 Wasteland at the back of shops used as stabling for draught horses. In the distance is the Bala Hissar citadel, now home to an Afghan army base and mooring for one of the American blimps that carry electronic surveillance gear and cameras. Simon Norfolk 2011 Entrance to the vast City Star Hall complex of wedding halls, on the new bypass out near Kabul Airport. Simon Norfolk 2011 A dumping ground for an abandoned Russian-era bomber that has now been incorporated into the car park of ‘Shamshad TV’, a new media company supported heavily by American money. Simon Norfolk 2011 The Political Staff of the British Embassy. Simon Norfolk 2011 Some of the Media Operations team including a Combat Camera unit, Camp Bastion, Helmand. Simon Norfolk 2011 Her Britannic Majesty’s Ambassador Sir William Charters Patey KCMG, his private secretary and his Nepalese mercenary security guards. Simon Norfolk 2011 A shaded rest area built by helicoptor re-fuelling crews at Camp Bastion. Simon Norfolk 2011 Security lights and communications antennae at Camp Leatherneck. Simon Norfolk 2011 The seemingly endless number of helicopter pads and hangars at Camp Bastion. Simon Norfolk 2011 The peripheries of the city of Kabul, especially to the north and east are endless building sites. Since most of the documentation concerning land title was lost during the war, much of this speculative and illegal construction is concerned more with esta Simon Norfolk 2011 One of the huge logistics compounds at Camp Leatherneck. A modern, technological army needs hundreds of thousands of different kinds of objects in order to keep it working. A $100m warplane can be grounded for the want of a $1 part. Supplying these things Simon Norfolk 2011
