The bulk of studies on opposition and resistance in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) have thus far been dominated by studies focusing on certain phenomena or periods from the perspective of historical research. This chapter exploits an alternative, yet experimental, approach to GDR opposition based on an exploratory analysis of a large photograph corpus (hopefully) providing us not only with valuable data for the reconstruction of social networks, but also with visual content relevant for understanding changes in the visual representation of oppositional activities. From methodological perspective, the chapter should exemplify how digitised photograph corpora can be “distant read” as containers of information in order to extract a more focused sample for visual analysis.