The moment after the interview – when yours truly, the fixer, the connector and the participant – a hawala agent in the local money bazaar …
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Darting around Mazar e Sharif on the back of a trial-bike doing ad-hoc interviews with manual labourers. There are consequences to asking questions and taking …
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One method we’ve experimented with here in Afghanistan is a varient of the ad-hoc, group street interview – an example above showing Panthea (interviewer) and …
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Directly behind me are a family of 4, plus 2 team members conducting the interview, plus ~6 kids from the neighbourhood crammed into a 6 …
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Documenting a city or country from a car is a bit like doing human behavioural research without ever leaving a laboratory – there is worthy …
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Homeward bound and one of our local crew ad-hocs his way along the train. Me? Just along for the ride. And yeah, we’re in the …
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Ad-hoc interview at a tailor’s.
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Today’s office is in a neighbourhood of Mumbai’s Dhavari, on a day the monsoon really starts to kick in. The father of the family picks us …
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Some days simply work better than others – the extended research team fans out to gather data from some of the 32.8 million Chongqingites and …
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A group interview in an upscale north Tehran restaurant. Behind me to my left a dozen or so ladies dressed conservatively in black from the neck …
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