You might like Left Right A watchtower guarding a street of foreign embassies in central Kabul. For the British army these improvised fortifications are called ‘sangars’, although the term is Dari for ‘barricade’ and is one of the few words the British brought home form the Anglo- Simon Norfolk 2011 The swimming pool that crowns Tepe Wazir Akhbar Khan, built by the Soviets in the 1970s and restored in recent times at great expense by USAID. It is uncertain if it will ever be used. 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 Strongly pro-Taliban refugees. For the photograph, they chose to partially cover their faces. 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 Accommodation units, known as ‘pods’, for lower ranking diplomats of the British Embassy. Simon Norfolk 2011 The tennis court of the British Embassy. Simon Norfolk 2011 The seemingly endless number of helicopter pads and hangars at Camp Bastion. Simon Norfolk 2011 The districts of Wazir Akhbar Khan and Sherpur, home to all the NGOs and contractors, occupy the site of the former British fortress from the Second Anglo-Afghan War, ‘the Cantonment’. Glitzy, kitschy ‘poppy-palaces’, flung upon a hectic property boom aft Simon Norfolk 2011 At Waisalabad high above West Kabul. It has taken 26 men from the Mine Detection Centre and four de-mining dogs more than three months to clear mines from an area the size of a few soccer pitches. Kabul’s rapid expansion has increased pressure for buildin Simon Norfolk 2011
