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A microphotograph of a mosquito taken in the 1962 in a mountain laboratory in what was then Tanganyika provides a prompt to consider the socio-political salience and affective power of scientific images. Drawing inspiration from anthropological work on photographic practices, the paper excavates the context of the image?€?s production?€¡±both the geopolitical machinations of the global malaria eradication program and the domestic research station?€¡±to apprehend the relationship scientific work and lives. As much souvenir as ?€?epistemic thing?€?, the microphotograph provides new directions in thinking about the materiality of memory in tropical medicine.