ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the afterlives of two photographs (c. 1900–c. 2010) and their history work alongside oral and written community histories. It highlights how these images are also valued as the property of specific communities who own, protect, source out, and (try to) regulate their exchanges among their own members and viewers in their NGOs, galleries, and public spaces. This comes as the histories derived and instrumentalised from these image documents are typically used by members to substantiate specific religious and civic collaborations and record their activities. Visual evidence of these community histories is not limitless. Particular images are chosen over others for their ‘truth values’ for imaging well-known but controversial events such as the 2013 Prawer Protest. Moreover, re-contextualisation efforts rely on a spokesperson’s relative authority, capacity to use photographs as evidence during public interviews, and external interpretations of their civic and Islamic communities.
