Sean Foley (ethnographer)

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]

Kafkanistan

Foley worked alongs side 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]

Publications
  • Kafkanistan Lukas Birk and Sean Foley. Glitterati Inc., USA, 2012. ISBN 978-0985169626
  • Afghan Box Camera Lukas Birk and Sean Foley. Dewi Lewis Publishing, United Kingdom, 2013. ISBN 978-1907893360
  • Photo Peshawar Sean Foley and Lukas Birk. Pix Publishing, India, 2017. ISBN 978-9385360466

References
  1. "Sean Foley – Ethno Film Festival Greece".
  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. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
  5. "Afghan Box Camera Project". www.afghanboxcamera.com. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
  6. Birk, Lukas. Afghan box camera. Foley, Sean. Stockport. ISBN 1-907893-36-9. OCLC 867078223.
  7. Foley, Sean, 1974-. Photo Peshawar = Pishāvar ke foṭogrāfar. Birk, Lukas,, Khan, Omar 1958–. Ahmedabad, India. ISBN 978-93-85360-46-6. OCLC 1043638133.CS1 maint: multiple 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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