The war in Bosnia in the 1990s raised to common currency the terms “ethnic cleansing” and “humanitarian intervention.” It brought back to Europe a barbarism not seen since the Second World War and was
Simon Norfolk has photographed sites of genocide and war crimes—names that ring like a death knoll for mankind—Rwanda, Cambodia, Vietnam, Auschwitz, Dresden, Ukraine, Armenia, Namibia. His photographs
In October 2010, Simon Norfolk began a series of new photographs in Afghanistan. Norfolk’s photographs are a response to the work of nineteenth-century Irish photographer John Burke, in the context of