What kind of image is this? Is it a found image or created by the ethnographer (or a combination)? What is notable about its composition | scale of attention | aesthetic?

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Oviya Govindan's picture
March 15, 2020

The image is created by the ethnographer. It shows a lush green forest, which seems counterintuitive to the kind of toxicity and contamination in the place. It also shows two humans in the forest, standing at two different locations, and seemingly separated spatially--a forest and a clearing. It would be interesting to highlight the toxicity at play through the image some more. Is there a way to show the liminality of farm vs wild, and contamination vs decontaminated spaces across the space and in terms of depth?

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Shilpa Dahake's picture
March 7, 2020

The images is cpatured by the ethnographer and the prespective of the image depicts the contestations between the wild and not wild, the scale of the expanse, and the difficult terrain of the region.

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