Malcolm McLean’s intermodal innovation (the shipping container) — a box smoothly moving from train to truck to ship, indifferent to contents, to language, to labour — becomes a kind of paradigm for a vision of the world in which information, forms of transport, and materials are fully “compatible, combinable, divisible” (Toscano and Kinkle, 2015).
How might photography find an opportunity to enter into, or even ‘hack,’ the landscapes of food delivery containerisation and distribuition? In what ways does our integration as photographers into logistical apparatuses of production and destruction provide an opportunity for a critical counterpoint?
Video work made in collaboration with Emilia Martin, during the workshop Dirty Pictures taught by Donald Weber.
How might photography find an opportunity to enter into, or even ‘hack,’ the landscapes of food delivery containerisation and distribuition? In what ways does our integration as photographers into logistical apparatuses of production and destruction provide an opportunity for a critical counterpoint?
Video work made in collaboration with Emilia Martin, during the workshop Dirty Pictures taught by Donald Weber.