The Kept and the Killed: the history behind a hole-punched archive

The photos of negatives with holes punched in them trigger flares of anger in me, especially where the puncher has seemed to purposefully hole-punched the face of a subject.

After glancing through a selection of other hole-punched photos linked to but not displayed in the article it seems like the hole-punched faces were chosen for their egregiousness.

These would make a great machine learn type project to see what AI would reinsert into the punch