This paper outlines a type of formal protest that women relatives of missing persons have participated in, and continue to participate in.  It describes a visual motif that mobilizes tropes of disappearance, and these tropes become particularly instrumental in enunciating the Cypriot cause of the Missing Persons.  By looking at this type of protest the paper outlines ways to talk about the acoustics of still photography, beginning with a discussion of sound, proceeding to images, and concluding with the ways these media intertwine on the subject of Cypriot Relatives of Missing Persons.  

full paper included in the proceedings of:

The First International Conference of Photography and Theory

Cyprus University of Technology Limassol Cyprus

publication forthcoming, 2011.