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In Stereo responds to a photographic archival artefact, the Keystone View Company’s Stereographic Library: Tour of the World (ca. 1930). This medium moulded the Western worldview as photographic and transportation developments made the globalised world more accessible, physically and virtually: tourism shaped the cultural imaginary through ‘armchair travel’, and vice versa. Combining heightened visual realism and authoritative textual commentary with mapping and indexing, the set constructed a definitive, encyclopaedic geography of the modern-colonial world.

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It also offers a visual language for research, aesthetic and curatorial practice that can deconstruct analogously organised discursive spaces, such as the World Heritage system and more technologically sophisticated modes of 3D visualisation. To this end, the project documents time spent between 2015 and 2019 at sites designated by UNESCO as World Heritage ‘at risk’: Potosí in Bolivia, and Bethlehem and Battir in Palestine. Stereographic images were taken using a 35mm Stereo Realist camera (1947–1971) and personal-political testimonio contributed by residents.

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The resulting ‘conversation’ models a metaphorically ‘stereo’ view on de/colonising heritage, in virtuality and actuality.

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