This is a story of a new kind of Iraq; Baghdad without the bombs. Long considered to be safer than the arab south, Iraqi tourists have flocked to Erbil for its cooler climate and relaxed atmosphere.
Simon Norfolk / Burke + Norfolk
John Burke was one of the first people to take photographs of Afghanistan, having travelled there during the second Anglo-Afghan war of 1878 to 1880.
Simon Norfolk // Yemen – The Next Afghanistan
In Yemen, Al Qaeda may have found the perfect combination of tribal hospitality, political chaos and military opportunity. Is this the next Afghanistan?
Simon Norfolk // Damascus Dictator Chic
The Panorama of the October War of Liberation is located at the entrance of the city of Damascus in the far east.
Simon Norfolk // Blenheim Oaks
Blenheim Palace near Oxford – one of the greatest of England’s stately homes – was a gift from a grateful nation to a General, John Churchill for his victories in battle…
Simon Norfolk // Chatsworth House
Chatsworth House, possibly England’s greatest stately home, is a major tourist attraction…
Simon Norfolk // New Commercial Mega Farms in Ethiopia
With food prices rising, companies and nation-states are going to extraordinary lengths to ensure the security of their future food supplies…
Simon Norfolk // Data Centres Overload
Simon Norfolk explores the places where the data we produce exists as memory in computer servers on massive data farms run by the web’s biggest players…
Simon Norfolk // Socotra
The island of Socotra in the Arabian Sea has a name meaning ‘Island of Bliss,’ yet it is thought of today as one of the loneliest and strangest looking places on earth….
Simon Norfolk // Kiruna
The Swedish city of Kiruna, needs it’s iron mine desperately, it is the town’s main employer. But the mine is eating the town…
Simon Norfolk // Salt Mines
Winsford Rock Salt Mine is Britain’s oldest working mine. It produces all of Britain’s rock salt used for gritting roads each winter…
Simon Norfolk // Persepolis
The Greeks called it Persepolis, today it is Takht-e Jamshid; but to its ancient Persian builders, it was simply Pārsa, which means “The City of Persians”…
Simon Norfolk // Isfahan
In the 16th century the Persian Shah Abbas the great made the city of Isfahan his capital dazzling the visiting Europeans that had never seen its like…
Simon Norfolk // Full Spectrum Dominance
The bewildering beauty of what human ingenuity can achieve when given endless resources collides with the appalling disposal of those assets on new and more brilliant ways to kill people…
Simon Norfolk // Brasilia
Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer will be receiving the Spanish Gold Medal of the Fine Arts from the Spanish Minister of Culture…
Simon Norfolk // Cern (LHC)
The work at CERN laboratory in Switzerland is focused on what physicists call TOE – the “Theory of Everything…”
Simon Norfolk // Arizona
Politicians, unable to latch on to the unpopular Iraqi war, are finding that immigrant-baiting allows them to act tough on ‘homeland security’…
Simon Norfolk // Soya Una Raya En El Mar
Its hard for an outsider to fathom why Bush is diverting billions of dollars towards cutting America’s supply of labourers during a war…
Simon Norfolk // Israel Palestine – Mnemosyne
In its nearly 60 years of existence, the almost constant state of war in Israel has had a remarkable effect on the shape of the landscape…
Simon Norfolk // Bleed
‘Primary mass graves’ are tragically common in Bosnia. Villages were captured, the defeated were taken to quiet places, gunned down and buried…
Simon Norfolk // Film Sets
An unusual view point on some of the world’s movie productions. Norfolk wanted to capture the entire the whole theatre that goes into movie making…
Simon Norfolk // Scenes from a Liberated Baghdad
To think that young American men today are making a similar tour of (still smouldering) ruins and drawing their own conclusions: about the superiority of America…
Simon Norfolk // Refugees
Human desperation can lead to extraordinary creativity as an instant shantytown gets built by despairing refugees after war breaks out…
Simon Norfolk // Afghanistan Chronotopia
Walking a Kabul street can be like walking through a Museum of the Archaeology of War – different moments of destruction lie like sediment on top of each other. …