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This article focuses on the style and evolution of images of Guyana and Guyanans created over the last 150 years (illustrated accounts of travel or exploration, photographs, documentary films). The multicultural and multiethnic dimensions of the country are at the heart of this reflection. Images “scribed” first by colonisers, then by representatives of colonial administrations in overseas dominions, and those created and accepted by Guyanans provide evidence of very similar tendencies: reduction to a single element, representing local flora and fauna or a person, which are thus promoted to the level of a global representation; almost total compartmentalization of these elements. But, depending on the period and the respective positions of the individuals in the photograph, it is difficult to say which images the Guyanans accept as a representation of themselves, and which are in fact a hyper or hypo-representation.