Of the 270,000 photographs commissioned by the US Farm Security Administration to document the Great Depression, more than a third were rejected and “killed”, often by punching a hole right through the image. In our essay “The Kept and the Killed” — our most read piece of the year — Erica X Eisen examines the history behind this hole-punched archive and the unknowable void at its center. — visit link in bio and tap image.⁠