Badcock, Jacob;
(2022)
Photography after Discard Studies: the case of Agbogbloshie.
Burlington Contemporary Journal
, 2022
(7)
10.31452/bcj7.discard.badcock.
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Abstract
Jacob Badcock’s article examines some shared problems in photography and pollution science by analysing two photographic series on Agbogbloshie, an electrical and electronic waste processing site in Ghana: The Hell of Copper (2008) by Nyaba Leon Ouedraogo and Permanent Error (2010) by Pieter Hugo. The article outlines how contemporary lens-based art concerned with representing environmental issues and scientific research attempting to measure pollution can be, despite benevolent intentions, guilty of reproducing colonial power relations.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Photography after Discard Studies: the case of Agbogbloshie |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.31452/bcj7.discard.badcock |
| Publisher version: | https://contemporary.burlington.org.uk/journal/jou... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Burlington Magazine Publications Limited. This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Arts and Sciences (BASc) |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10172896 |
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