In 1979, the photographer Víctor Melchor Basterra was kidnapped by the right-wing military junta that had seized control of Argentina in a 1976 coup. For several years, he was held in clandestine detention with other alleged "dissidents" in the Naval Mechanics School (known as ESMA) in Buenos Aires. When he was freed, he was forced to make counterfeit car registrations and arms permits for the military. Dropping these off one day, he saw a pile of photographs, set aside to be burned; his own image was among them. Realizing that these were records of those citizens, like him, who had been "disappeared," he shoved the photographs down his pants while no one was looking and, risking his own life, smuggled them out. One was a picture of Fernando Brodsky, shown here. Like that of most of his fellow inmates, Fernando's precise fate remains unknown. This photograph, taken in the prison, is among the only evidence that he was kidnapped and detained there in the first place.