The 100-Year-Old Instant Camera in Afghanistan Faces Extinction

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The 100-Year-Old Instant Camera in Afghanistan Faces Extinction

The Afghan Box Camera has been used in Afghanistan for over a century. It’s unlike any other camera in the world, and this beautifully peculiar device, along with the culture surrounding it, is on the verge of disappearing.

via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2013/11/afghan-box-camera-project/?viewall=true

“The Box-Camera has been the photographers’ tool to take ID and portrait photographs in Afghanistan for the last 100 years,” Birk said. “Slowly but surely, digital is taking over and most photographers are moving to the cheaper and easier way of taking photographs.”