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Link: Everyday People in Everyday Asia](http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/30/everyday-people-in-everyday-asia/?gwh=8AAE16E033D0A67A0BBCA6E557E0A130&gwt=regi)

It was June 2013 when Ian Thomas Jansen-Lonnquist, inspired by the work of the Everyday Africa project, registered the Instagram account @everydayasia. As a Delhi-based freelance photographer, he saw a chance to carve out a space similar to the @everydayafrica feed, which showcases mobile photography that captures familiar moments, even mundane ones, to counter a media narrative too often shaped by images of extreme famine and poverty.