"...Western notions of occularcentrism and the primacy of the visual in thinking about photographs has elided the sensory and emotional impact of photographs as things that matter. I use the world 'matter' intentionally for it suggests the emotional and the sensory ...As such, it might be said to explore photography beyond the visual: photography whose social meanings are not necessarily dictated exclusively by the visual but also by their perception as objects through which the visual is performed and understood."-Elizabeth Edwards, Photographs and the Sound of History, 2006.