The Afghan box camera—a homemade wooden device known as the kamra-e-faoree, meaning “instant camera”—has been used to preserve memories in Afghanistan for generations. It is part of the local ...

Four decades of spanning across South Asia could not satiate veteran photojournalist Jayanta Shaw’s passion for negatives and positives. For the past half-a-decade, the Kolkata-based imagery wizard ...

Seventy-year-old Haji Mirzaman laments as he fiddles with the wooden door on a beloved box camera he has used for 55 years. Just over a decade ago, he was one of dozens of photographers who still made ...

Can you believe photographer Jovel Lorenzo took these black-and-white photos in the last two years with a camera he built himself? One Sunday in Escolta’s creative space Hub: Make Lab, we met ...

The Afghan Box Camera Project is looking to raise awareness of a dying art form: the wooden instant camera. The Afghan Box Camera Project is looking to raise awareness of a dying art form: the wooden ...

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 ...

If your home is anything like ours, chances are you have old food boxes here and there. If you are into photography and are looking for an inexpensive way to get more creative with your lighting, you ...

When the Taliban first seized power in Kabul in 1996, the group enforced restrictions on photography so strict that its members confiscated family photos at airports, raided camera shops and smashed ...

Jeffrey Lim, a passionate box camera enthusiast and heritage trades researcher, is bringing a touch of nostalgia to the busy streets of Kuala Lumpur with his Kanta Studio project. With a newly secured ...

Panasonic's Lumix DC-BGH1 Micro Four Thirds box camera for video shooters is being joined by a full-frame mirrorless sibling called the BS1H, which squeezes the performance chops of the Lumix S1H into ...