Abstract
This article explores the role of photographs in shaping the social selves of Filipino temporary labor migrants. Examining the production of photographic self-images by Filipino migrants in Hong Kong and their reception in the Philippines, I show how people deploy photography as a technology to bring into being their desired future selves. By making present ghosts of the future, photographs of the self shape distinctive translocal subjectivities.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 381-392 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Visual Anthropology |
Volume | 21 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jul 2008 |