Fixing Roy Stryker's Hole Punches

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The Farm Security Administration was a government led organisation tasked with the photographic documentation of the USA during the Great Depression. Their goal was to record the social circumstances of the citizens caused by the collapse of the stock market and the impacts of the Dust Bowl on the Mid West. These photographs would be used as an evidential record in a court of law to help and supply aid to particular regions. The collection of over 15,000 photographs was critically managed by lead editor Roy Stryker whom would hole punch photographs deemed unsuitable due to repeated frames, failed photographs and even too politically sensitive images. Roy Stryker was the final say in what was ruined or published. Now, the entire archive has been made publicly accessible on the internet, in this new dissemination and context for these photographs I began to use digital technologies in attempt to repair the damage done by the curation of Roy Stryker.

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