Politics of Representation

This chapter discusses the recent interplay between visibility and invisibility in terms of the rich and varied practice of documentary photography, which traditionally sought to expose the unrepresented and publicly reveal that which was previously hidden or unseen. The federal government was woefully unprepared for this situation. The Federal Emergency Management Agency took days before they began to establish operations. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the global threat of rising flood waters and the disturbing normalization of environmental disasters around the world have taken on increasing prominence as social and environmental justice concerns as well as photographic subjects. Execution Squares is also an act of sharing. In interviews, Sarkissian tells the personal story of a disturbing moment from his childhood, walking to school in the early morning at around the age of twelve and passing the dead body of a man hanging in the neighborhood square, eyes startlingly and morbidly open

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• The Migrant Image

  Open Access•T J Demos•Migrant Image•2013

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