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Yannis Kontos's "Kabul Photographers"


Second-generation Afghan photographers pose in front of their 50-year-old wooden box camera in downtown Kabul. Street photographers have reappeared in the Afghan capital and are doing a brisk business, six years after they were banned by the Taliban.


Afghan street photographer looks into his old-fashioned wooden box camera while working along a Kabul street. Street photographers have reappeared in Kabul and are doing a brisk business, six years after they were banned by the Taliban.


An Afghan woman, who got rid of her burqa for a while, waits to be photographed by a simple old-fashioned box camera in downtown Kabul. Street photographers have reappeared in the Afghan capital and are doing a brisk business, six years after they were banned by the Taliban.