With his innovative method of photography, Hans Georg Berger posits the artist as an outsider who strives to blend in with the community he desires to represent. The traditional roles of the photographer as the active, and of those photographed as the passive part of the artistic process are being questioned, and in part inverted. The essays and interviews assembled in this book explore Hans Georg Berger’s artistic experiences in Laos and Iran. An anthropologist; a critic of photography; an ethnologist; an urbanist; and two fellow writers, explain and investigate the radicality of his reconsideration of the relationship between artist and subject.