Can you suggest ways to elaborate the caption of this visualization to extend its ethnographic message?

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Diana Pardo Pedraza's picture
March 10, 2020
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There is no information on this aspect. I suspect that this image was taken by the author. I like the composition: the tension between a full and empty space, clean and dusty... I also feel that the image suggests that the boxes of documents produce a clearly defined path…  

It also reminds me of images that I have seen that refer to cold cases.

On boxes, archives and (a)historical events: Marisol de la Cadena’s book, Earth Beings. She has a wonderful chapter on this: Story 4: Mariano’s archive. The eventfulness of the ahistorical. 

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Louise Elstow's picture
February 26, 2020
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This visualization is missing a useful caption - so the main way this could be elaborated on would be to include more information! Much of the text from the introduction to the photo essay could be used to explain why the author chose to show a found picture of an archive room.  Where is the archive room?  Was it not possible for the author to photograph it herself?  Why use a found picture - does this tell us anymore about the toxicity of the place and how it is accessed?  What does the location have to do with the his/story being described?  Why is this important - without it, the photo might just be any old archive anywhere.  It could in fact be of interest as it is an archive that predominantly addresses this imbalance of histories and voices.

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