Most postcards on Guam show only beauty but that is only a half-truth.

1. Sunsets…

2. Paradise

3. Beaches

4. Most postcards on Guam
depict the beaches as a
tropical paradise…

5. cigarettes
But not a clean one.

6. Styrofoam plates

7. Beer bottles, cans, and
Styrofoam cups

8. Images on postcards are
fragmented knowledge.
Most postcards are only one
viewpoint

9. The photographer chooses what the
audience shall see.
Half-truths
Half-lies

10. What the photographer chooses not
to show is how trash peppers the
beaches of Guam.

11. But people sure love to hangout
at beaches.

12. Although it seems that people on
Guam don’t care.

13. Make the half-truths into full
ones…
Don’t let the trash lie.

14. Tropical Paradise?
By Liz Imasa

15. Works Cited
• Kulesh, Robert. Hafa Adai From Guam.
• Rock, Tim. Another classic sunset in paradise.
• Warner, Mitchell P. A sunset from Piti, Guam