Everyday People in Everyday Asia

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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.