Sean Foley (ethnographer)

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Sean Foley is an Irish ethnographer specialising in visual anthropology. He works as a researcher on art projects. Foley has made ethnographic films on mortuary workers in India, tourism in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and cultural ecology in the south of Greece. He is best known for his research work on Afghan Box Camera photography. [1]

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Kafkanistan

Foley worked alongside Austrian artist Lukas Birk on a film on tourism to Afghanistan. The research was published under the title Kafkanistan [2] in 2012. [3] Foley also produced a short film titled Kafkanistan as well. [4]

Afghan box-camera project

Foley and Birk investigated the history of the last working box camera photographers practising in Afghanistan and Peshawar, Pakistan. The research resulted in an online archive, [5] the book Afghan Box Camera (Dewi Lewis, UK, 2013) [6] and the book Photo Peshawar (PIX, India, 2017). [7] They first published the terms Afghan Box Camera and Kamra-e-Faoree, two descriptions for Box Camera photography in Afghanistan that have become common terms in the photography world. [8] [9] [10] They also published open-source films and a ‘how to build an Afghan Box Camera’ manual. [11] [12] [13]

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References

  1. ↑ "Sean Foley – Ethno Film Festival Greece". 27 September 2016.
  2. ↑ Foley, Sean (2012). Kafkanistan. Birk, Lukas ([New ed.] ed.). New York: Glitterati Inc. ISBN   978-0-9851696-2-6. OCLC   839450683.
  3. ↑ "Artists Lukas Birk and Sean Foley Defy Misconceptions of the Middle East with "Kafkanistan"". Complex. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  4. ↑ "Kafkanestan by Sean Foley – video dailymotion". Dailymotion. 10 February 2009. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
  5. ↑ "Afghan Box Camera Project". www.afghanboxcamera.com. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
  6. ↑ Birk, Lukas. (2013). Afghan box camera. Foley, Sean. Stockport. ISBN   978-1-907893-36-0. OCLC   867078223.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. ↑ Foley, Sean, 1974- (2018). Photo Peshawar = Pishāvar ke foṭogrāfar. Birk, Lukas,, Khan, Omar 1958–. Ahmedabad, India. ISBN   978-93-85360-46-6. OCLC   1043638133.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ↑ Liliy, Roth (1 February 2012). "The Disappearing Afghan Box Camera". TIME Lightbox.
  9. ↑ "In pictures: Afghan box camera". BBC News. 1 February 2014. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  10. ↑ "Afghan Box Cameras: how street photographers captured a nation". the Guardian. 1 February 2014. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  11. ↑ "How to build a Kamra-e-faoree" (PDF).
  12. ↑ "How to build a kamra-e-faoree (Afghan box camera)". Vimeo. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  13. ↑ "How to use an Afghan box camera "kamra-e-faoree"". Vimeo. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
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