Image collections

Making the following collections of pictures available is the reason for this site; the work, however, is going more slowly than I’d imagined. Nor am I very pleased with the results just yet. This is a work in progress, and probably will remain so for a while.

Yande rëta iä riru (pictures of our community)

These collections all originated as a lucky idea: when I was leaving Imi in 2004 I took pictures of everyone in the community, put together two albums of them to present to the village as a whole, and gave everyone a copy of his or her photo. I only intended it as a kind of farewell gesture of gratitude. It turned out almost nobody there had ever seen pictures of themselves before; in particular, parents had never had pictures of their children. Anyway, my neighbors may have appreciated this one small project more than any of my much harder-fought agricultural work.

The pictures here are organized by family (often with a few miscellaneous photos in between), and represent every human being who lived in Imi as of August, 2004.

Warning: this collection currently has cropping and image distortion issues (and only the first half is available).

volume one

volume two

jokorai

Jökorai yande rëta (the way our community is)

A couple months later I turned the albums into a kind of semi-linear narrative to share with family in the States.

This work is of course dedicated to my neighbors in Imi: all of them. But in particular I'd like to remember Don Arnulfo "Tojo" Tañera, who passed on in September, 2004 (left).

Warning: very long and probably very slow, as the images are large. There may also be multimedia complications.

Propaganda del Centro de Capacitación
(Capacitation Center pamphlets)

HTML versions of pamphlets for two water pumps promoted by MCC Bolivia’s Centro de Capacitación. The images were fun to create and the paper versions may have been useful, but turning it all into html wasn’t serious: the information was intended for Bolivian campesinos, who don’t have access to the internet. Still, I think the results may be interesting, and there may be someone out there who can actually benefit from the information.

Note: neither physical nor electronic addresses are current. centro de
capacitación

The content of this site —both text and images— should be considered copyrighted through the GNU Public Licence Version 3. In practical terms, this means you are free to download, share, and/or modify any material I’m making available, just as you’re free to view it. You’d be doing me a favor: interest in the pictures justifies the site.

On the other hand, though it’s hard for me to imagine copyright ever being a serious concern, my imagination may be limited. Therefore one caveat. One of the improvements in GPLv3 (as I understand it) is that emphasizing implicit restrictions is not the same thing as adding new restrictions. You may not use any of the pictures here for commercial purposes without the explicit permission of the subjects in the pictures. I do not have the right to give you that right. Thank you.