The Disappeared: images of the environment at Freetown's urban margins.
'The Disappeared' is a small collection of images documenting the deforestation of the mountain range outside Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone. Aesthetically these images are inspired by West African photographic practices and represent an alternative ethnography of the recent war's impact on t...
| Publicado en: | Visual Studies Vol. 22; no. 2; pp. 104 - 120 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sep2007
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