Reflections of Movement

Abstract

Human mobility is perpetuated at the intersection of opportunity and pressure. In this photographic essay, I explore reverberations of movement from the Arctic to East Africa, where I have done ethnographic fieldwork or passed through on my own anthropological and personal journey. The photos compare continuities of movement for transborder Skolt Sámi communities in Fennoscandia, sedentarized East African hunters, West African migrants in Madrid, and my own transnational movement. I show that just as the camera works by reflecting an image, the movement of the anthropologist intersects with interlocutor mobilities to reveal global inequalities of movement.