Afghan box camera #portraits - in pictures
For decades, street photographers in Afghanistan and Pakistan have used handmade wooden box cameras to take portraits of locals. The thriving trade has survived Sovet invasion, civil war and Taliban rule – but now digital photography threatens to wipe it out. A new book, Afghan Box Camera (Dewi Lewis Publishing), and archive project charts the history of this lo-fi trade – and its beautiful results
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