/portfolio/ Recent content in Portfolio on Cathy Richards Hugo -- gohugo.io en Mon, 18 Feb 2019 12:27:33 -0600 /portfolio/geographies-of-absence/ Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0400 /portfolio/geographies-of-absence/ This project asks how state underinvestment is distributed along Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast and how that geography of neglect relates to the environmental and security burdens placed on the region’s Afro-Caribbean and Indigenous communities. Typically, this coast is only made visible through what outside institutions and outsiders can gain from it - as a conservation zone, as a region for good food and good times, and most recently, as an excellent zone for drug trafficking.