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Evan Hepler-Smith: Found Image: “In Pictures: Gaza Water Crisis Worsens.”

I'm struck by the powerful relations that the trash/debris/waste in the foreground activates within this image. There's something powerful about the presence of trash within the frame of an image that belongs to a genre (seascape) from which this kind of trash would conventionally be carefully excluded. It reorganizes, grounds, and unlocks of the politics of the entire scene.

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