AN exhibition by nationally-renowned photographer Simon Norfolk has gone on show in Darlington Arts Centre.

The giant metre-and-a-half wide photographs depict the destruction of Afghanistan.

Mr Norfolk said: "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."

The work won the European Photography Publishers award for 2002.

The photographs were unfurled by Darlington Media Group photographers Lucy Carolan and Richard Grassick.

The exhibition is on display until March 18 in the Media Workshop, on the ground floor of the Blanche Pease annexe, behind the main arts centre building.

It is open on Tuesday and Saturday from 10am to 5pm and Thursday and Friday from 1pm to 9pm.