Sean Foley is an Irish ethnographer specialising in visual anthropology.
Foley has made ethnographic films on mortuary workers in India, tourism in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and cultural ecology in the south of Greece.
[1] Foley worked alongside Austrian artist Lukas Birk on a film on tourism to Afghanistan.
[4] Foley and Birk investigated the history of the last working box camera photographers practising in Afghanistan and Peshawar, Pakistan.
[8][9][10] They also published open-source films and a ‘how to build an Afghan Box Camera’ manual.