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How is this image “ethnographic”? Would you add anything to this image’s “design statement”?

Tuesday, December 4, 2018 - 6:15pm

I like your choice of the infographic as quintessential to experiences of lead exposure. I am interested in what is left unsaid by the infographics which start from the vantage point of wanting to distill complexities into useable vernaculars. For instance, to push against the worn-out saying, "knowledge is power", in the case of a poor family finding out that their home is draped in lead paint, "knowledge is disempowering". Further, when left without recourse after the identification of a lead risk/exposure, parents in particular fall under unique forms of surveillance, which if made public, could lead to judgment and isolation. My point being, I think the infographic is a powerful ethnographic artifact for what it hides as musch as it conveys.

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