This visualization presents toxcities as gendered, paradoxical with narratives of powerful masculinity as well as vulnerabilties of men, and finally, attached emotional geographies (like nostalgia, leisure, etc.)
The landscape of petrochemical industries in the backdrop of blue spaces is faded, it almost escapes the sight of the viewer. It would help for the ethnographer to provide an edited version of the image with increased sharpness and curves to highlight industrial backdrop.
Assuming it is created by the ethnographer, it is landscape image from the field site. The silhoutte nature of the image creates a very powerful focus to the image and perfectly highlights the themes illustrated in the caption.
The caption is elaborate enough and perfectly balances the ethnographic visualization and theorization of the phenomena.
The visualization captures the prolonged interactions between human and more-than-human entities and how they have transformed over the years. It also directly advances the gendered and indentity politics of toxicities, both spatially and temporally.
This is a nicely composed shot that juxtaposes a sillhouette of a male surfer in the foreground with appears to be a string of industrial facilities in the background across some sort of bay. The caption helpfully ties the various elements of the picture together in a manner that seems organic to the image even as it establishes the ethnographers' main themes. The position of the surfer in the shot reinforces that masculinity is the main subject here, but a kind of masculinity that must be constructed and sustained within a world largely beyond the control of any individual man.
