ABSTRACT
This chapter examines a collection of photographs that are held in the dwelling of Mr Grace Bwire, who is the current, and long-standing, LCIII chairman of and therefore the senior political figure in Bugamba sub-county, in Mbarara District, South-western Uganda. Following the seminal contributions of John Tagg and Allan Sekula, photographic theorists have increasingly explored the ways in which all manner of official institutions use archives as discursive sites for the exercise of disciplinary power. Grace Bwire's photographs are made up mostly of pictures taken by a small cadre of local freelance photographers who have made it their business to follow the chairman around to his many public engagements, and to document his affairs. If Grace's visitors generally handle all of his photographs with a certain degree of deference and respect, then these engagements are even more marked in relation to the militaristic photographs.
