An old-fashioned film camera can be an extremely simple device to make, in that as little as a cardboard box with a pin hole in it will suffice. But that simplicity at heart leaves endless scope ...

He also was fascinated by what was then a common sight: urban street photographers who made their living snapping cheap portraits, mostly for identity documents, using old-style wooden box cameras.

Rodrigo Abd, a photographer with the Associated Press, traveled across Afghanistan with a wooden box camera known as a kamra-e-faoree.