How to use an Afghan Box Camera

Afghanistan is one of the last places on earth where photographers used a simple type of instant camera called the kamra-e-faoree for means of making a living. The hand-made wooden camera is both camera and darkroom in one and generations of Afghans have had their portraits taken with it, usually for identity photographs. At one stage it was even outlawed when former rulers of Afghanistan, the Taliban, banned photography, forcing photographers to hide or destroy their tools. In this film, Qalam Nabi, one of the last remaining box camera photographers in Kabul demonstrates how to use his camera.

• Lukas BirkDirector · Editor
• Sean FoleyDirector · Editor

Release date

January 1, 2011

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

8m

Genres

Documentary