Abstract This article contemplates a collection of digital photographs gathered in Burj al-Shamali, a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, between 2001 and 2011. It uses an arts-based research practice in which photographs are treated as multi-layered substances, composed of a stratified physical object with different meta-medial layers, in order to consider the ethical, theoretical and practical challenges of capturing the emotions, subjectivities, experiences and politics that exceed the material image within the collection itself. These diverse narratives and active layers, which overlay a photograph’s embodied material layers, are called meta-medial layers. Considering photographs in this way is to recognize a certain fragility, and opens up the possibility of emancipating these same photographs from dominant readings. By looking at how photographs were gathered in Burj al-Shamali camp on the one hand, and distributed in their dematerialized form through performative interventions on the other, this article considers how the meta-medial dimension – and particularly the conversational aspect – of these photographs constitutes a practice of collective self-determination.

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扩展摄影：非物质化照片的元媒体/对话层

摘要 本文考虑了 2001 年至 2011 年间在黎巴嫩的巴勒斯坦难民营 Burj al-Shamali 收集的一组数码照片。它使用一种基于艺术的研究实践，其中照片被视为多层物质，由用不同的元媒体层对物理对象进行分层，以考虑捕捉超越收藏本身物质图像的情感、主观性、经验和政治的伦理、理论和实践挑战。这些覆盖照片具体材料层的多样化叙事和活动层被称为元媒体层。以这种方式考虑照片是为了认识到某种脆弱性，并开辟了将这些相同的照片从主流阅读中解放出来的可能性。