Left: Mahomed Tahir Khan, Aslam Khan &c of Ghazni. (John Burke, 1878)
(Courtesy of the Wilson Centre for Photography, London)
Right: Afghan Police being trained by US Marines, Camp Leatherneck.
Shot on the
training
range. One can see that the police have no ammunition clips.
A portfolio of all the prints in this work in a silk solander case with a copy of the book was collected by each of the institutions that helped in the creation of the project and those that have holdings of Burke's work: Tate Modern, The British Library, The Wilson Centre for Photography, The V&A, The Getty, SFMoMa and the Library of Congress.
