If you haven’t already come across it I thorough recommend Siobhan Angus’s Camera Geologica which documents photography’s inextricable links to resource exploitation whether it’s animal, vegetable, mineral or human (if that’s not animal too). Climate change, human rights issues, subjugation of indigenous populations and the ruination of lovely places is our (photographers) faults. An over dramatisation perhaps but we aren’t blameless.
I haven’t yet but will. I imagine she discusses the counter thread to that or photography’s use in revealing harm and trying to mitigate or at least bear witness to the exploitation, often we do both. I also find it interesting in culture when people lay collective responsibility and guilt on groups for wrongs but we don’t all get the credit for things going well. I need to read the details of her thesis first. Thank you for nudging me in that direction.
If you haven’t already come across it I thorough recommend Siobhan Angus’s Camera Geologica which documents photography’s inextricable links to resource exploitation whether it’s animal, vegetable, mineral or human (if that’s not animal too). Climate change, human rights issues, subjugation of indigenous populations and the ruination of lovely places is our (photographers) faults. An over dramatisation perhaps but we aren’t blameless.
I haven’t yet but will. I imagine she discusses the counter thread to that or photography’s use in revealing harm and trying to mitigate or at least bear witness to the exploitation, often we do both. I also find it interesting in culture when people lay collective responsibility and guilt on groups for wrongs but we don’t all get the credit for things going well. I need to read the details of her thesis first. Thank you for nudging me in that direction.