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Mazar e Sharif

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Mazar e Sharif: headless couple
A headless couple advertising wedding photography services – Photoshop skills are fairly sophisticated here – with the background, heads and extras such as basking lions …



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25 Aug 2010

In: Cultural Norms
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Window Shade

25 Aug 2010

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The use of dense bush as a dust & window shade on this traffic police box.
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Morning Ad-hocs

25 Aug 2010

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Mazar Snapshot III

24 Aug 2010

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If you’re going to take a photo of a truck full of cattle skins, do remember to occasionally keep an eye out for open sewers. …
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Mazar Snapshot II

24 Aug 2010

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Mazar Snapshot I

24 Aug 2010

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During out wake-up-with-the-city session this morning, ad-hoc interviewing grain merchants, and under the watchful eyes. Talk one of our local fixers through Hitchcock’s The Birds.
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4 Way Dice

24 Aug 2010

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Field Notes: Researching During Ramadan

24 Aug 2010

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How does Ramadan – the Islamic month of fasting during which time the devout avoid eating and drinking between dawn and dusk, impact on your …
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The Money of History

22 Aug 2010

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Stepped out of a series of ad-hoc interviews with hawala agents, to find this gent punting this 1910 hundred rouble banknote to the currency dealers …
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In/Appropriate Reading

22 Aug 2010

In: Today's Office
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