Can you suggest ways to enrich this image to extend its ethnographic import?

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Tim Schütz's picture
March 1, 2020
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The image does a great job hinting at the fraught relation between fishermen and powerplant. The image could be contrasted with other shots at daylight, or with activities at the plant, to start including more perspectives.

Andrea Bravo's picture
March 1, 2020

Maybe a way to connect it more clearly to the geographical site of your ethnography.

Kristin Gupta's picture
March 1, 2020
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As elaborated earlier, I would like to hear more about the process of the author's creation and their personal relationship to the material.

March 1, 2020
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I do not think that 'enriching' is the point of this. The point seems to be to place imagery in circulation and in conversation. The variety of images in this conversation is what prompts reflections about toxicity, rather than a single image itself.
Shahab Albahar's picture
February 29, 2020

I would implore you to include feminist and queer perspectives and artwork for a broader understanding of how (hyper)masculinity is constructed, challenged, and negotiated in Urban Guatemala. A visualization of the bus routes could further enrich your ethnography too.

Shahab Albahar's picture
February 29, 2020

Perhaps historicization. a time-based mapping (overlays) of demographic change and the emergence (and remediation) of toxic sites determined by each decennial census since 1990 (1990, 2000, 2010, 2020? - forthcoming). Also, an added layer of land-use zoning adjustments, official comprehensive planning documents, remediation policies, variances granted by local planning authorities and litigation gathered from court cases.  

Shilpa Dahake's picture
February 29, 2020
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The landscape of petrochemical industries in the backdrop of blue spaces is faded, it almost escapes the sight of the viewer. It would help for the ethnographer to provide an edited version of the image with increased sharpness and curves to highlight industrial backdrop.

Miriam Waltz's picture
February 29, 2020
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The image is a little opaque in my view, so the sculpture is hard to make out as well as the map. To extend the ethnographic import of the image, maybe the two sources could be combined in a different way, not only in an overlap? Or maybe there is a way to make both easier to make see.

Miriam Waltz's picture
February 29, 2020
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In the caption there is mention of political borders marked in red within the image, but I do not seem able to see this - only a purple makring of what I presume is the outline of Delhi. Are they the dark-grey rectangles? If so, maybe adjust either the image or the caption to avoid confusion.

Miriam Waltz's picture
February 29, 2020

I don'y have any suggestions to enrich the image, I think it communicates a lot as it is. If the presence of the figures taking the photographs was to be highlighted, perhaps the contrast could be increased. But that could take away from the focus of the photo and the caption, which is on the river, toxicity and the algae.

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