{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "the-photographs",
 "type": "issue",
 "names": {
  "name": "The photographs",
  "said": "Why this site is short of pictures of people"
 },
 "region": [
  "worldwide"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "family": "none"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "The free pictures of tattooed bodies are mostly colonial-era photographs of people who did not choose to be photographed, or sideshow portraits made to be sold.",
  "story": "A picture can be correctly licensed, on subject, and still be the wrong thing to put in front of a reader. This site's rules on that are simple and were set by its publisher: no blood, no wounds, nothing that turns a person into a specimen, and where a historical photograph is used, it is named for what it is.\n\nThe pictures here that show living practice were taken with permission and are credited to the people who gave it."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "ภาพที่ใช้ได้โดยเสรีส่วนใหญ่เป็นภาพยุคอาณานิคมของผู้คนที่ไม่ได้เลือกจะถูกถ่าย หรือภาพเวทีที่ทำขึ้นเพื่อขาย"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "exhibited",
   "as": "Where those pictures came from.",
   "rel": "story"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:wp-human-zoo",
  "s:commons"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "inference"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "high",
 "tags": [
  "start-here"
 ],
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "kin_in": []
}