This is a photo of a page from the photo album of a German missionary, showing graves of Herero and Nama. Some of the private photos that were collected by German missionaries sent out to South Africa and Namibia can today be found in randomly arranged photo albums.
The images that have mostly lost their context show landscapes and architecture, missionary families with their household members and local inhabitants who remain without names. In addition, it is striking that the missionaries have sent home many photographs of shrines, memorial sites and graves, or graveyards as if to document competing forms of land-claims and markers of social landscapes.
This is a photo of a page from the photo album of a German missionary, showing graves of Herero and Nama. Some of the private photos that were collected by German missionaries sent out to South Africa and Namibia can today be found in randomly arranged photo albums.
The images that have mostly lost their context show landscapes and architecture, missionary families with their household members and local inhabitants who remain without names. In addition, it is striking that the missionaries have sent home many photographs of shrines, memorial sites and graves, or graveyards as if to document competing forms of land-claims and markers of social landscapes.