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A project created by Lukas Birks and Sean Foley highlights this country’s tradition of photos hand-developed within its namesake box cameras. A staged photo of a fictional event in this country, which is extensively analyzed in the last essay of Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others, depicts a man who dangles a bit of flesh in front of a second, bloody-faced man jokingly riding a third amidst a “dialogue of the dead.” For Time, Jodi Bieber photographed a noseless woman born in this country, for which Jeff Wall’s (*) Dead Troops Talk is partly subtitled. A refugee from this country, who wears a teal undergarment visible through tears in her loose red headscarf, (10[1])stares intently at the viewer (10[1]-5[1])in an 1984 photo taken by Steve McCurry. For 10 points, (10[1])name this home country of Sharbat Gula, a green-eyed woman whose portrait appeared on the cover of National Geographic. ■END■

ANSWER: Afghanistan [or Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan; accept Islamic Republic of Afghanistan]
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Oscar SiddleLimp FrancekitSimple Vibes117-5
Ben Russell JonesSimple VibesLimp Francekit12810

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2024 ARGOS @ Stanford02/22/2025Y3100%0%0%112.33
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