The body was the first site of conquest in the desire to make the invisible visible. X-rays cut through the inner surfaces, turning flesh into a photographic medium that light can penetrate. The dropping of the first atomic bomb was the largest photographic event ever to occur. Inscribed by catastrophic light, Hiroshima and Nagasaki became cameras. Atomic shadow traces appeared throughout the cities—body-shaped black marks where people stood at the time of the detonation. The violent light bleached the buildings and sidewalks except where a body had interrupted it. The shadows were photograms. 

I created Palinopsia by re-photographing Google Earth satellite images of bomb craters at the Nevada Test Site with X-ray film. The film captures an inverse of the image, filling the absent cavity with visible light. It creates an illusion of matter where the matter was removed, reflecting radiation's introduction into the atmosphere. My appropriation of these images is an act of counter-surveillance and provides commentary on image consumption and the inaccessibility of place and its history.