Self-portraiture
“…if indeed the Savage exists primarily within an implicit correspondence with utopia, the specialist in savagery is in dire straits. He does no know what to aim at. His favorite model has disappeared or, when found, refuses to pose as expected. The fieldworker examines his tools and finds his camera inadequate. Most importantly, his very field of vision is blurred. Yet he needs to come back home with a picture. It’s pouring out there, and the mosquitoes are starting to bite. In desperation, the baffled anthropologist burns his notes to create a moment of light, moves his face against the flame, closes his eyes and, hands grasping the camera, takes a picture of himself”
-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, 2003 (Global Transformations. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Pg 24.)
