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. Kafkanistan. Foley worked alongside Austrian artist Lukas Birk on a film on tourism to Afghanistan. The research was published under the title "Kafkanistan" in 2012. Foley also produced a short film titled "Kafkanistan" as well. 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, the book "Afghan Box Camera" (Dewi Lewis, UK, 2013) and the book "Photo Peshawar" (PIX, India, 2017). 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. They also published open-source films and a ‘how to build an Afghan Box Camera’ manual.