wet meets dry: old and new photography in Herat

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Business is slow. There are no tourists in Herat.

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Street photographers still use the darkroom-in-a-camera negative-to-positive technology.

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The negative is exposed on paper, developed inside the camera, then rephotographed and redeveloped to get the positive.

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Everybody seems happy with the deal. Except the opposition across the street?

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