The attitudes of tourists towards the people from the Third World do not differ from the widespread Human Zoos of the 19th century Europe. The industrial revolution created a mass tourist and the transport revolution enabled him to see and take pictures of "exotic peoples" in their places of residence. From New Guinea to Greenland and from Zanzibar to Chukotka.
Technological development along with popularity of social networks has resulted in egalitarisation of photography also among poor societies. This announces another revolution that gradually destroys the current meanings of the ideas mentioned above: the tourist turns from a "hunter" into an object of a "wild game"; a photographer is transfomed into a model. The project presents a process of reversing these meanings, experienced by me during my travel to India. I wanted to be like Phileas Fogg: I became a white, tall, shaggy, male Saartje Baartman, who was saved in the memories of at least 156 mobile phones owned by the locals.
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