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Duygu VtP Annotation

This image is a screenshot of an article published by Time on-line, and this article includes text as well as an image that represents pollution in La Oroya.  Although we do not have any information about the date of this article published, the image provides information about the scale of toxicty problem in La Oroya with reference to a survey conducted in 1999. The title of this article refers to the World's Most Polluted Places, which leads me wonder more about the listed other places in addition to La Oroya. A photo of Doe Run Peru's operation place attached to the article escapes attention to an extent -- this makes me question why the ethnographer did not directly use this image but the screenshot of the article. I like to read it as an intervention into the mainstream representations of toxic places.

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