Although physically absent from these images, we co-inhabit their symbolic and psychological space. In revealing that we are ultimately subject to the same dimensional sphere, and in recognising that the ‘Other’ (as a product of the binarism that pervades our language and our system of knowledge) plays an intrinsic part in defining our perception of ourselves and the world we live in. These images no longer function as a testament to The Spectacle of the Other. Rather, they repeatedly reinforce the The Spectacle of Us.

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2 Tagg, J. in ‘The Burden of Representation: Essays on Photographies and Histories’

3 Chévrier, Jean-François in ‘Another Objectivity’

4 Gilman, Sander in ‘Difference and Pathology: Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race and Madness’

5 Heavey, David in ‘The Creatures Time Forgot’

6 Woodward, K. in ‘Identity and Difference’, Concepts of Identity and Difference

7 Foucault, Michel in ‘The Order of Things: an archaeology of the human sciences’

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9 Hall, Stuart in ‘Representation: Cultural Representation and Signifying Practices’

10 Hall, Stuart in ’The Spectacle of the ‘Other’

11 Sontag, Susan in ‘On Photography’

12 Susan, Sontag, in ‘Illness as Metaphor’