What About the Undeveloped Camera? The situated image of care

This critical-creative essay explores the spatiotemporality of my father’s dialysis treatment, drawing from the discourses of material culture, anthropology, psychoanalysis, and architecture to examine the situated image of his care. Photovoicing decentres the writing subject; my father’s photographs image the sites and situations of treatment with discussion drawing out that which lies within and without the image. Attending to the entanglement of meanings formed in discussion of the image — in the spoken word, transcription, and the page — this essay writes site in the intervals of my father’s treatment. This work reveals the relational, human, nonhuman, and collective assemblage of care, and the distributed ecology of its architecture.