An independent counter-archiving agency for the image and the archive.

An imagery-led reading of the Israeli-led attacks on Lebanon in the 2026 war, beginning in the south. It reads physical change on the ground, in villages and built fabric, farmland and tree cover, against a baseline from before the war taken in the same season, with Sentinel-2 optical pairs and Sentinel-1 radar at ten metres, through the war and after the cessation. Named hospitals, schools, places of worship, and heritage sites wait on licensed building-scale imagery, since no open imagery at that scale covers the war. Imagery does not show who acted: attribution of any strike rests on the documentary record, each source named with its status, and the imagery corroborates physical conditions and patterns.

The case has fetched its imagery, tested its pairs for season and sun angle and kept the ones that match, and set each change against a comparison zone of four northern districts, chosen from conflict-event records. Its rules and thresholds were written and hashed before any difference was computed, and its measures stand beside UNDP’s building-level counts. It has surveyed 38 sources in the legal record and keeps a register of 41 claims, each with its status. Its page is a draft, not yet public. No finding has been drawn or published. Each measure states its noise floor and what it cannot show: a ten-metre pixel is not a building, and a change in the surface is not its cause. No local verification has been done, and a frame that cannot be read with confidence is withheld, not guessed.

A photographic resection of Ein Lifta, the abandoned Palestinian village at the northwestern entrance to Jerusalem. Vantages from two visits are crossed to reconstruct the site's spatial and temporal condition.

One of the only pre-1948 Palestinian villages in the greater Jerusalem area to survive largely intact, Lifta carries the evidence in its condition: built fabric, cultivated landscape, and spring, a record of dispossession read against the archive of its displacement.

A spatial counter-archive of California's inland sacrifice zones, which treats environmental racism as a hypothesis to test rather than a premise to assert. Case Study 1, Highway 111 through Mecca, reads a 1.5-mile stretch of the road through Mecca, an unincorporated farmworker community of 8,219 at the 2020 Census in the Eastern Coachella Valley, against the same road through Palm Desert, about twenty miles away. It draws on Dorothea Lange's 1935 photographs, the Los Angeles Examiner's 1953 photographs of the valley, a ground-level survey of both corridors, CalEnviroScreen 4.0, and CARB's pesticide air monitoring: 88 image exhibits, each hashed and dated.

The comparative question is what accumulates where a road passes through a community without municipal government. The one measured exposure is a winter study of fumigants in the air: at the Mecca Fire Station, the breakdown product MITC was at or above its reporting limit in 30 of 49 valid samples, though the agencies judged health effects during the study not likely and noted that a seasonal study cannot assess chronic exposure. The study was requested by a community steering committee, so a forum of a kind existed, and the case asks what it could secure. The visual record, read against those indicators, makes visibility and its management the subject. No one who lives in Mecca has yet reviewed the work, and nothing in it speaks for the town's residents.

A counter-archival investigation of mass seabird mortality in the Santa Barbara Channel, opened after a die-off of cormorants, murres, and brown pelicans along the California coast, reported in Santa Barbara on 2 April 2026 and attributed by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to starvation. The study shoreline runs from Carpinteria State Beach to Rincon Point. The investigation lays sea-surface temperature, weekly pier toxin monitoring, and documented mortality onto one timeline.

The argument concerns the threshold of detectability: monitoring infrastructure exists (C-HARM, HABMAP, BeachCOMBERS) and the pattern is documented and accelerating, yet each mortality event is treated as novel. The monitors have said as much: in the autumn of 2014, when cormorant carcasses on the chapter's beaches rose from 63 in September to 129 in December, BeachCOMBERS reported that with two years of baseline it could not tell whether this was an unusual mortality event. The investigation's subject is the gap between existing data systems and any integrated rapid-response mechanism, not individual cause-of-death determinations. From October 2025 to October 2026 the pier's toxin record stayed near zero, above zero in only two of 52 measured weeks, while the channel warmed to 3.8 °C above average in August 2026, and the first three weeks of October averaged 4.6 °C above, higher than any full month since 2011. NOAA's El Niño Advisory remains in force, with a strong to very strong event forecast through early 2027.