This image opens the concept of toxicity to a consideration financial burdens as a result of cancer. Theorizing "toxicity" through access (and lack of access to financial resources) is a useful...Read more
In your caption for the image, you state that it "makes claims to stop future housing developments." I don't know when this mapping project began or the date for this image, but I'm curious - was...Read more
I consider this image "ethnographic" within the context of the added critical commentary. I would add information about how/when/who took the photo.Read more
The image communicates the authority and persuasive rhetoric of corporate sponsored remediation science: "cinnabar" circulates in the contemporary U.S. (or for my age group, at least) as the name...Read more
Based on the author's design statement and caption, I read this image as an example of "thoughtcrime" from George Orwell's 1984, in other words an illegal thought. We are being...Read more
The image works well with the description. How might it change if there was no description?Read more
This image encourages a conversation about the state's role in creating and managing toxicity. Such an ID card would support James Scott's idea of state legibility of its subjects. Read more
To this end, I wonder if editing the image to pair with a similar graphic that removes or "translates" some of the molecular jargon into easily recognizable uses for these compounds (i.e. that you...Read more
A photo essay on toxicity by Danny Hoffman.Read more