Lantto, Mirjami

San Pedro river archive - sage 2020 - Vol 27, Issue 1, 2020 : (143-155 p.).

In this experimental photo essay, I begin to craft an imaginative archive of the San Pedro river (Arizona) as a tentative conversation between geomorphology and creativity. Through several visits to this site, I experimented with incorrectly exposed photography as an alternative way of understanding geomorphological research, which must constantly compromise on the detail and resolution of spatial and temporal data. The violently dynamic river system begun to quite literally suspend the concept of a riverscape ‘archive’, which prompted imaginations of a curiously disposed archivist.


archive,
creativity,
geomorphology,
riverscape,
San Pedro river