Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Building on Tim Ingold’s theory on human correspondence, this visual essay plays with the photos of #EverydayNile, a project involving photojournalists from different Nile basin countries to re-picture the river through stories of everyday water practices. # EverydayNile's initial query was: how can we use photos to elicit a conversation and promote shared understandings about the river across countries? The idea of correspondence invites weaving together images from different stories around knots defined by specific photographic elements: focus, composition, time, framing, and light. This visual essay shows how through corresponding we can practice imagination in communication, to create a political community engaged in a dialogic conversation on the river as a common.
Source: Visual Studies
Author: Emanuele Fantini
Institution: IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4402523108