ABSTRACT
A number of selections from the collection have been shown publicly in different contexts in festivals, conferences, exhibitions, and publications. The installation included photographs made by Ruben, an Assisted Self-Portrait, Polaroids, and hand-drawn maps related to our working together between 2004 and 2009. Anthropologists sometimes fall back into using that word as if deciding to document something is somehow more value-free or that it exists somehow outside of representation—there is representation and then there is another category which is documenting. To an audience with some knowledge about the history of photographic representation, the images may be seen to resonate with the kinds of anthropometric studies made by the pioneer of composite photography, Francis Galton.
