This project utilizes the disposable camera to bring interlocutors into the process of ethnographic data production. With these photos, Davies provides his viewers with an emic perspective, as we see what his interlocutors chose to share in reference to their experiences living at the edge of the Chernobyl exclusion zone. The photos themselves are not overly disturbing. In fact, many of them capture the mundanity of life in a way that is somewhat charming. However, they are combined with short captions (one or two sentences) that index the toxicity of the location and the images are interlaced with powerful quotes about loss, struggle, and helplessness that give the exhibit a certain affective force.
