Are we asserting the easy dominion of our civilization over all times and all places, as signs that we casually absorb as a form of loot?

Just going out on a foray to assemble a collection of street trophies about this or that running social sore can't be effective - and never was.

Any familiarity with photographic history shows that manipulation is integral to photography.

Documentary is a little like horror movies, putting a face on fear and transforming threat into fantasy, into imagery. One can handle imagery by leaving it behind. (It is them, not us.)

How useful are documentary photographs if there is no follow up, no way of knowing what happened next in the story?

I was concerned with something like the notion of 'language speaking the subject,' and with the transformation of the woman herself into a sign in a system of signs that represent a system of food production, a system of harnessed subjectivity.

Are we asserting the easy dominion of our civilization over all times and all places, as signs that we casually absorb as a form of loot?