Issue No.3 MONUMENT
You can’t photograph a memory, but you can photograph a ruin.*
Issue No. 3 MONUMENT
If colonial monuments can be understood as ruins, in the sense that they symbolise the destructive force of conquest, what can be salvaged from the framework of monumentalism?
Edited by Tristen Harwood
*Nathalie Léger, Exposition
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