It is common to say that there are no photographs of the disappearance of people executed by the last Argentine dictatorship (1976-83). However, there are some: they are not photographs of before or after the disappearance, but photos of the "during". They were part of the repressive bureaucracy, which despite its illegal and clandestine procedure, […]

In September 2018, when the publication of the book Sexe, race et colonies was announced to the sound of drums and cymbals, proclaiming an unprecedented iconographic profusion of 1,200 images concentrated in a luxurious coffee table book-type edition, the irruption of the text «Les corps épuisés du spectacle colonial ” interrupted such vehemence and marked […]

The visual history of saltpetre, popularly known as "Chilean nitrate", consists of a few (few) photo albums made by saltpetre entrepreneurs, mostly of British origin. It is a photographic record documenting the process of saltpeter extraction in the Atacama Desert between the 1870s and 1920s. This legacy, which is preserved in Chilean archives and libraries, […]

In the face of the tragic event of extinction of the multispecies we are experiencing, the depiction of the disappearance of the more-than-human appears as a melancholy photographic practice. But what about the politics of its aesthetics? The imagery of lost species can cynically commodify the loss or serve as a liberal duel repertoire, connecting […]