This image encourages a conversation about the state's role in creating and managing toxicity. Such an ID card would support James Scott's idea of state legibility of its subjects. Read more
I think it's interesting that this image provides different understandings and scales of toxicity. In the image of the "clear day" in Beijing, there is still a layer of smog floating above the...Read more
This image communicates the 'potential' of lead poisoning. I appreciated this image as an ethnographic object because, as the author points out, it represents the gap between reality and public...Read more
I see a racist toxicity in the policing practices of the LASPD and the attempted masking of this toxicity. However, I would appreciate the author building their own conception of...Read more
As an anthropologist, this image could be considered a part of kinship studies and how we culturally produce normative family structures. Furthermore, these structure endure for generations. The...Read more
As a native of Los Angeles, I have witnessed the smog worsen over the years. These photographs serve to complicate and add nuance to how people have conceptualized smog as a problem in LA. In the...Read more
I find this image "ethnographic" and to point to the author's familiarity with this video, down to the seconds, which represents an ethnography of temporality. As the process of cutting out just...Read more
This image captures state-sanctioned measures by South Korea to uphold their nation-building that are anti-black and highlights the extent that they are willing to go to, to maintain a racially...Read more
A photo essay on toxicity by Danny Hoffman.Read more