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Idyllic toxicity

The source of the visual is unclear, but most likely created by the ethnographer. Like others have pointed out, the photograph depicts a small settlement in the mountain. It shows an idyllic and calm atmosphere, but together with the caption, this feeling can be easily unsettled. The structures of industrial agriculture (greenhouses?) blend in seamlessly. The scale of attention feels "meso" -- from the image, we don't know what's going on in any of the structures, nor where the settlement is located. The photograph itself doesn't show any signs of manipulation or filtering, but rather seems like a snapshot that serves a certain documentary aesthetic. 

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