Forensic work is reconstructing Shark Island, the first genocide of the twentieth century. Disturbing the dead in order to name them is its own fraught kind of repair. On that contest over Namibia's graves: ajbeall.substack.com/p/stones-bon...
Tony Beall · Where Sacred Fires Burn
At least 3,000 Herero and Nama people died in a German concentration camp at Shark Island, Namibia. A new forensic exhibition in Berlin is using digital technology to unearth how colonizers scarred a landscape, and a community