For my historical object, I have chosen an article written by Sharon Sliwinski entitled "The Childhood of Human Rights: The Kodak on the Congo." This article includes early photographs released during the human rights campaign that took place around the turn of the 20th century. These pictures set out to expose Leopold for his atrocities and thats what they did. One of these atrocious stories (picture one) document the cruel intentions that most of the colonizers had, and this picture shows a man with his hand cut off due to his master tying rope around his hands so tight that they fell off.  The second picture shows a man who had defied his owners, so in turn, the white masters killed his wife and daughter and put their hands in a sac to give back to the man. This kind of powerful emotional evidence grabs the audiences attention This forces the audience to experience their own true feeling as opposed to a foggy narrators point of view.
There is still the issue of the photographer posing as an unreliable source for truth or mostly action because all he is doing is just observing and reporting what he sees without actually helping the cause. In Heart of Darkness,  Marlow is the observer who has internalized all of the common prejudice that was popular in his day and reports it back in his own racist voice. He neutralizes the Africans by saying "They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now, nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation lying confusedly in the greenish gloom" (Conrad 17). He makes them seem like they exist as one whole, without an identity and only referred to as savages and insignificant and the racist narration covers up the scene from being told clearly while at the same time allowing the real voice of the observing public sneak out. Its interesting to see how these people were treated and how hypocritical society can be once they are confronted with the truth but in the end, the Kodak allowed a reliable source of evidence to a general public who had no idea how to speak for themselves.