Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay on striking against the Israeli state and the deportation of people from their home(land).

The millions whose photographs are taken are not referred to in the histories and theories of photography. From an early stage, it was assumed that the people photographed provided the resources and the cheap or free labor for the large-scale photographic enterprise. In this fourth part of the Unlearning Decisive Moments of Photography series, Ariella Azoulay looks at photographers as cultural agents of imperialism.