What Amazonian photographs reveal when we look again, and together

A new paper by Junia Mortimer, Urban Studies Foundation fellow, explores what happens when photographic archives are revisited through different conceptual frameworks, and with different people in the room.

The archive in question belongs to Roberto Monte-Mór, professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, architect, economist and urban planner, who worked in and photographed Amazonian frontier settlements throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s while developing his concept of extended urbanization. ...