Response: Connecting to Spirits via Photography

This kind of documentation seems really spooky. However, I think that it might be valuable to document them because of the fact that the person doesn’t always remember what they are doing or saying. The Mambo in the article was surprised to see herself in the act and many others might want to see themselves as well. I do think that this process is a bit weird to document. I would imagine that it involves a lot of movement and sounds that can’t really be captured in a photograph. I couldn’t really look through all the photographs because these kinds of things do freak me out but in the few that I saw, people just looked crazy. I wonder how the photographer kept up with all the movement. Did she have to jump around a lot? Also, connecting to the spirits seems like a very private thing to do but since it’s voluntary, it does not seem very intrusive to photograph it, just creepy.