Screaming silences: subjects and photographs in schools in contexts of extreme urban poverty and environmental decay

Abstract

In this chapter, we discuss a group of photographs taken by students who live in slums of the global South. The images embody realities often denied or forgotten. In these images, the foreground gains terrain and what Deleuze describes as the process of ‘giving a face’ takes place. We set out to address the outline of a relationship where the word retreats and its bridges to the world dissolve. The silences that urban experience, in the global South, confronts us with emerge in the images produced by these young people. It is this experience that these young people photograph and name as “screaming silences.”.