Workshop

Hosted by: Society for Visual Anthropology

Of interest to: graduate students, practitioners of participatory research, community members

Primary Theme: Practicing / Applied Career Development, Technical Skill Development

(3-0720) Photoethnography in 2018: Resistance, Practice, and Reinvention (Workshop 2: On Photovoice and participatory photography)

Level of Audience: Beginning

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We propose a series of three hands-on workshops and a closing roundtable discussion focused on methodologies of photoethnography and the current state of the genre. Each 2-hour workshop will feature three practitioners discussing their experience and will involve some participation from those attending the workshop. The roundtable will be structured as an informal and participatory conversation between the 9 workshop practitioners and the audience, talking about the current state of photoethnography.

In this second workshop, participants will discuss the opportunities and challenges around photovoice and other participatory photographic methodologies. We will work with workshop attendees to experiment with different approaches to participatory photography. We will also look to partner with a local San José organization or school to conduct a participatory photography project as an extension of this workshop.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify whether participatory photography workshops would be a useful method in their own work.
• Identify the major contributions and pitfalls of employing photovoice in ethnographic research.
• Run participatory photography workshops in the community in which they work.

Workshop Presenter(s)

• John Doering-White

  University of Michigan

• Hector Ruiz

  Ph.D. Candidate
  University of Pittsburgh

Organizer(s)

• Amelia Frank-Vitale

  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Workshop Presenter(s)

• Amelia Frank-Vitale

  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor