Etnografik Fotoğraf

Visual Media and Indigenous Cultures
I will weave through a series of juxtapositions in this essay drawn from a number of experiences which I have had in the 'field' of ethnography - a kind of bricolage - or as James Clifford has put it, an 'ethnographic surrealism'. 1 In retrospect these fragments are linked in ways which I could not have anticipated before I made the attempt to understand the connections. This kind of reconstruction interests me because it is a combination of personal history and field work, evidence of an effort to explore and map the relationship between subjectivity, analysis and experience. More than that it is a way of specifying and revealing the presence of 'theory' within the subjective - a strategy for talking about theory 'through' subjectivity and for me, in this context, a convenient tool for linking the work of Eric Michaels with my own concerns.