{"id":112,"date":"2018-01-25T16:38:56","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T16:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizon.peachpuff-wolverine-566518.hostingersite.com\/?p=112"},"modified":"2018-05-29T23:43:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T23:43:37","slug":"picturing-the-political-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/horizon\/112\/picturing-the-political-imagination\/","title":{"rendered":"Picturing the political imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Becky Snowden<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-header field-type-text-long field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><strong>Nepal\u2019s 10-year civil war ended in 2006 but it still looms large in the political consciousness. Now, a new collection of photographs is exploring how people use the medium to express their political identities and their dreams for the future.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">It may be the age of the selfie, but Nepal has around 6 000 photography studios left across the country. \u2018Many people would find (this) surprising as the assumption is that mobile photography has swept them away. (But) they\u2019re tenaciously hanging on,\u2019 said Professor Christopher Pinney from University College London, UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">He recently spent four months in Nepal exploring what we can learn about people\u2019s political imagination \u2013 their aspirations and visions of the future \u2013 through the way they represent themselves and their lives in photographs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"dynamic_article_image_bloc\">\n<figure style=\"width: 1190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/horizon-magazine.eu\/sites\/default\/files\/Image1.jpg\" alt=\"Image credit - Prof. Christopher Pinney\/ PhotoDemos\" width=\"1200\" height=\"761\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image credit &#8211; Prof. Christopher Pinney\/ PhotoDemos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Many of Nepal\u2019s photography studios have intricately painted backdrops dating from the time of film photography, which allowed people from rural areas to adopt different identities. Prof. Pinney discovered that studios are still used, particularly for official photographs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">\u2018The airport backdrop was in a small town at the far end of the Kathmandu Valley where the clientele seemed mostly to be hill people who wanted to participate in this cosmopolitan space of freedom and movement,\u2019 said Prof. Pinney.<\/p>\n<div class=\"dynamic_article_image_bloc\">\n<figure style=\"width: 2390px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/horizon-magazine.eu\/sites\/default\/files\/image2.jpg\" alt=\"Image credit - Prof. Christopher Pinney\/ PhotoDemos\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1200\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image credit &#8211; Prof. Christopher Pinney\/ PhotoDemos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Photographic portraits have long been interwoven with citizenship requirements such as passports or visas. Until 2008, men in Nepal posing for official images were required to wear a traditional hat known as a topi, which were often provided by the photography studio. Prof. Pinney says that studio props and backgrounds allowed ordinary people to try out different identities, perhaps acting out a desired persona or acknowledging their changing position in Nepali culture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">He added: \u2018It\u2019s not simply that you take a ready-made identity into the studio and the camera simply records what\u2019s already there. It\u2019s rather that something expansionary and creative happens in that performative space in front of the camera.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Prof. Pinney\u2019s work is part of the PhotoDemos project, funded by the EU\u2019s European Research Council, which is looking at the relationship between photography and the political imagination in nine countries with a history of political conflict\u00a0\u2013 Bangladesh, Cambodia, Greece, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, North India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">From 1996 to 2006, thousands of people were killed in Nepal\u2019s civil war between the ruling government and the Communist Party (Maoist), who wanted to abolish the monarchy and establish a People\u2019s Republic. \u2018It was a high intensity conflict with many victims and it\u2019s a conflict that still dominates the political landscape in Nepal,\u2019 said Prof. Pinney.<\/p>\n<div class=\"dynamic_article_image_bloc\">\n<figure style=\"width: 1190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/horizon-magazine.eu\/sites\/default\/files\/image3.jpg\" alt=\"Image credit - Prof. Christopher Pinney\/ PhotoDemos\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image credit &#8211; Prof. Christopher Pinney\/ PhotoDemos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">The Rana dynasty, which ruled Nepal from the 1850s to the 1950s, have been criticised for creating the hierarchical society that ultimately helped cause the insurgency in 1996. However, Prof. Pinney says their legacy is still very much up for political debate and Rana descendants maintain and protect photographs in order to promote their family archives and redeem their history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">\u2018(The Ranas) were, from the 1860s, very enthusiastic makers and commissioners of photographs, so there\u2019s a huge number of early images of Ranas, so these enter the contemporary political landscape,\u2019 said Prof. Pinney.<\/p>\n<div class=\"dynamic_article_image_bloc\">\n<figure style=\"width: 1070px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/horizon-magazine.eu\/sites\/default\/files\/image4.jpg\" alt=\"Image credit - Prof. Christopher Pinney\/ PhotoDemos\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1620\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image credit &#8211; Prof. Christopher Pinney\/ PhotoDemos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">During his time in Nepal, Prof. Pinney found that photographs can reveal attempts to unite a divided country and heal historical wounds. Many studios advertised their services through images of women wearing traditional cultural dress, echoing and intensifying the political prominence of indigenous rights. One organisation, the Udaaya Samaj, whose members come from nine different caste groups, created a calendar in 2017 featuring archival photos of the cultural groups that they are seeking to unify.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">He also came across examples of what he called aspirational photography, which is used to imagine a better future. For instance, he met a shopkeeper in the small town of Bhaktapur whose shop and house were badly damaged in the 2015 earthquake. The man used photo editing apps on his phone to create images of himself and his family in distinctly different places than their current environment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"dynamic_article_image_bloc\">\n<figure style=\"width: 1859px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/horizon-magazine.eu\/sites\/default\/files\/image5.jpg\" alt=\"Image credit - Prof. Christopher Pinney\/ PhotoDemos\" width=\"1869\" height=\"720\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image credit &#8211; Prof. Christopher Pinney\/ PhotoDemos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caption credit\">The shopkeeper created a family tree alongside images of temples and cultural icons. \u2018I thought it was a wonderful and amazing symbol of a desire to root oneself in a place that had become very vulnerable after the earthquake,\u2019 said Prof. Pinney.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">The aim of PhotoDemos is to produce an edited volume of photography and an exhibition. Nepal is the first country to be completed but by the end of 2018 the photos will be combined with those collected by researchers in other countries to enable comparisons to be made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Prof. Pinney hopes that the work will not only allow researchers to explore the similarities and differences between people\u2019s reactions to politically important events, but also bring a new dimension to the academic study of photography.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">\u2018I hope the research will feed into what I call world system photography. Photography theory is still very markedly Eurocentric &#8211;\u00a0it\u2019s failed to get to grips with what world photographic practice has to teach it.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><em>Originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/horizon-magazine.eu\/article\/picturing-political-imagination_en.html\">Horizon<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Becky Snowden Nepal\u2019s 10-year civil war ended in 2006 but it still looms large in the political consciousness. Now, a new collection of photographs is exploring how people use the medium to express their political identities and their dreams for the future. 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