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 ...

Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Kabul, 1996. Rothman is managing editor at TIME. The Afghan box camera—a homemade wooden device known as the kamra-e-faoree, meaning “instant camera”—has been used ...

Kabul (AFP) – Haji Mirzaman was just a teenager when he started taking photos using a homemade wooden box camera in his cousin's studio in downtown Kabul. He took black-and-white portraits of people ...