Seeing with, seeing otherwise: Transvisualizing extended urbanization through urban-nature archives in Brazilian Amazonia
本文通过合作解读Roberto Monte-Mór在巴西亚马逊拍摄的个人照片档案，提出“与图像共视”的方法，揭示照片中隐藏的城市-自然实践，如河流流动、棕榈建筑和环境知识，挑战了传统城市化理论。
This article explores methodological approaches to reading personal photographic archives through the concept of “seeing with,” a practice of collaborative interpretation that challenges individual mastery of visual materials. Working with Roberto Monte-Mór’s 1980s–2000s documentation of Amazonian frontiers, originally linked to his theories on extended urbanization, we demonstrate how collaborative viewing sessions can reveal what theoretical frameworks initially obscured. Through transfluence and transvisualization, concepts drawing on quilombola epistemologies, the research shows how photographs contain multiple temporal layers and spatial logics. Rather than documenting modernity’s arrival in the jungle, these images also reveal urban-nature practices: the persistence of river-based mobilities, palm architecture, and environmental knowledge within industrial capitalism. The methodology foregrounds relational research practices with personal archives, the ethics of seeing with rather than looking at, and how changing interpretive frameworks make previously invisible presences visible in existing collections.