Works - Photos
To Shoot a Photograph
[inkjet print on paper on foamboard, arrows, screws, electrical tape, soil]
Photographic Etymologies: The Violence of Shooting.
'And so the violence of empire takes place twice. Once, throughout the long history of colonisation, and again in a contemporary context, by the erasure, denial and wilful ignorance of that history' (Hirsch 2021:29).
Photographic Etymologies: The Violence of Shooting.
'And so the violence of empire takes place twice. Once, throughout the long history of colonisation, and again in a contemporary context, by the erasure, denial and wilful ignorance of that history' (Hirsch 2021:29).
Toby Woollen
To Capture an Image
[inkjet print on paper on foamboard, climbing rope, soil]
Photographic Etymologies: The Brutality of Capturing.
'Let us be clear on this point: the arrival of loot into the hands of western curators, its continued display in our museums and its hiding-away in private collections, is not some art-historical incident of 'reception', but an enduring brutality that is refreshed every day that an anthropology museum like the Pitt Rivers opens its doors' (Hicks 2020: 137).
Photographic Etymologies: The Brutality of Capturing.
'Let us be clear on this point: the arrival of loot into the hands of western curators, its continued display in our museums and its hiding-away in private collections, is not some art-historical incident of 'reception', but an enduring brutality that is refreshed every day that an anthropology museum like the Pitt Rivers opens its doors' (Hicks 2020: 137).
Toby Woollen
To Take a Picture
[inkjet print on paper on foamboard, white cotton gloves]
Photographic Etymologies: The Crime of Taking.
'Infamously, Indigenous children in Canada were sent to residential schools, forced to adopt Euro-American culture and severed from traditional ways of life. To prevent children from accessing their culture is an act of genocide as defined by the United Nations, and is a symptom of a much deeper racist intention' (Procter 2020: 149).
Photographic Etymologies: The Crime of Taking.
'Infamously, Indigenous children in Canada were sent to residential schools, forced to adopt Euro-American culture and severed from traditional ways of life. To prevent children from accessing their culture is an act of genocide as defined by the United Nations, and is a symptom of a much deeper racist intention' (Procter 2020: 149).