Geography is a visual discipline, working with maps, globes, models, slides, and photographic illustrations; yet ‘visual power is simultaneously expressed as something to be wary of, serving historically as the prime tool of the white, western gaze of academia’ (Roberts (2012) PHG 37, 3, 386). D. Cosgrove (2008) therefore argues that the ‘truth’ of the image must be sought through its deceptive surface to the ‘social practices’ beyond it.