ABSTRACT

This chapter looks at photography as an art giving voice to everyday resistance. Focusing on the work of four photographers, it speaks to the use of photography as a weapon of resistance. It argues that resistance photography can embody connotation at both an individual and collective level: resistance photographs can inspire a ‘collective meaning’ within a group of individuals who share similar experiences and perspectives. Resistance photography can influence a climate of resistance within a social and cultural context and can motivate collective action. In this subtle and clamorous dispersed resistance, nationalism and everyday religion are difficult to separate.