This book shows a series of portraits found in the trash bin of the Gulu Real Art Studio the oldest photographic studio in Gulu Northern Uganda The studio only has a machine that makes four ID images at a time a number that most clients cannot afford so the photographer takes single analog pictures punches out the head with a special device and discards the rest In these faceless prints focus shifts to the subjects individual posture and clothing forming a typological portrayal of a community Martina Bacigalupo also interviewed clients of Gulu their stories many deeply moving describe the political economic and social conditions common to contemporary East Africa Gulu Real Art Studio.
