Francis Fonseca The Record

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Every photograph here is matted rather than cropped, so each is shown in its original proportions and complete. Captions describe only what the photograph itself records.

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Francis Fonseca and a visiting representative jointly holding a ribboned presentation box between the flags of Belize and Cuba, framed ministerial portraits on the wall behind.
Plate 24 A courtesy exchange at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, between the flags of Belize and Cuba. The Minister's own official portrait hangs on the wall at right. Credit: Foreign Ministry Communications.

Feature

The working rooms of a foreign ministry.

Most of the photographs below record the ordinary business of the office rather than its ceremonial moments: courtesy calls, credential exchanges, signings and the meetings between them. Read together they describe the shape of a small state's diplomacy — conducted with partners across the Caribbean, the Americas, Europe and Asia.

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Nothing here is cropped.

Photographs on this site are set inside a mat and scaled to fit it, rather than being filled into a frame and trimmed to shape. It means an image occasionally sits with visible margin around it — and it means no face, no gesture and no part of the original composition is ever cut away to suit a layout.

Captions describe what is visible in the photograph. Where an individual, a date or a venue could not be established from a reliable source, it is not named.