visual documentation of traditional breath-hold divers in Hava’u (Tonga) and Mie (Japan), work-in-progress from June/July 2023Photography by Karl Frost, PhD Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, Department of Human Behavior, Ecology, and Culture Photo exhibition January through April 2024 lobby of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig open hours Monday- Friday […]
AI photo editing, “truth”, and Visual Anthropology
It has always been recognized that photography and video, while having a special weight as evidence of “what actually happened”, have a creative aspect that can generate a distorted representation of the world. Some would emphasize that distortion is inevitable. The photographer selects the subjects to photograph and out of a stream of photos, selects […]
Displaced: Quotidian Scenes from Western Colombia
(a work-in-progress film ) Directed and filmed by Karl Frost in collaboration with Dr Cody Ross of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany Filmed in Choco and Risaralda in Western Colombia, the film juxtaposes scenes of daily life with excerpts of interviews about varying experiences of violent displacement. Colombia has an estimated […]
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Tluu Haada Nay pole raising
On Friday, 19 August 2022, Christian White (master carver of the Yahgulaanas clan of the Haida), with family, clan, and community, raised a totem pole in Old Masset, Haida Gwaii (BC, Canada) to honor his family, the Yahgulaanas/jaanas clan, and the Haida Nation. The Haida are famous historically for their elaborately carved totem poles. Raising […]
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Arang Dak: remote Mayangna village at front of wave of colono land theft
Expanded version of 29.03.2023 article in The Havana Times Settler invasion reaches core of Central American rainforest: Mayanga seek to protect land, avert violence Semi-autonomous Mayangna territories in the Bosawás Biosphere Reserve of northern Nicaragua, are experiencing a crisis of illegal settler land theft In the last 10 years, over 80 indigenous people have been […]
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Arang Dak: Photo exhibition at MPI EVA Leipzig: 1 July til 2 December 2022
Photos and Video Stills by Karl Frost Arang Dak is a Mayangna village in northern Nicaragua. It sits on the Lakus River in the semi-autonomous indigenous territory of Kipla Sait Disbaika, about 2 days boat ride from the nearest road access. Much of life centers around maintaining rotating fincas … forest plots which are cleared […]
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Coco and Bocay Rivers, Bosawas Nature Reserve, Nicaragua
Some photos from our trip to Bosawas Nature reserve in Nicaragua (December 2021). The purpose of the trip was primarily to visit the Mayangna village of Arang Dak on the Walak Was (Lakus River). Anthropologist Jeremy Koster has been visiting Arang Dak for many years, working with the Mayangna documenting their life. It is the […]
Quotidian Scenes
an exhibition of photographic anthropology by Karl Frost at the Max Planck Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig April 18 – July 30, 2019 Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig open hours 8:00 – 18:00 These photos and video stills were taken from the network of field sites associated with the Department of Human Behavior, Ecology, and […]