ABSTRACT
Photography might be thought of as a medium that shows what is gone. Kaddu Wasswa used photographs to prove what he did, to transfer the moment into an object he could show and share. The photographs in the 2010 version of the Kaddu Wasswa Archive refer to and show a past in order to understand the representation of it in the present. Texts that try to get to the nature of the medium argue that photographs are objects that refer to death, to what is no longer tangible and accessible. Kaddu Wasswa had been making sure that the images existed, that they were contextualized over time, that the photographic (and other) documents have a materiality that tells its own story in relation to the transparent message of what was photographed. Every documented fragment leads to other fragments that are part of a library of experiences, interests and observations connected to the individual that encounters it.
