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These Photos Were My Life: Understanding the Impact of Participatory Photography Projects
Oxford University Press and Community Development Journal, volume 53, issue 4 (2017), pp. 618-636
"This article analyses the impact of participatory photography as a tool for community development. In recent decades, participatory arts and media initiatives are increasingly agency - rather than community-led, their value assessed using linear evaluative models and framed in terms of short-term,
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The Practicalities of Informed Consent in Development Photography
Dhaka: Save the Children (2015), 16 pp.
"Every photography subject deserves to be treated as an autonomous human being, capable of making independent decisions. In case of children, we also need to ensure their parents’ consent. We need to be constantly aware of our position in the power hierarchy — in the development world, in many c
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Whose Pictures Are These? Re-Framing the Promise of Participatory Photography
London: University of London, Goldsmiths, Doctoral Thesis (2015), 259 pp.
"Participatory photography initiatives promise to ‘empower’, ‘give voice’ and ‘enable social change’ for marginalised communities through photography. This thesis questions this promise, demonstrating participatory photography to be a contested practice defined as much by inherent tensio
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Participatory Photography for Peace: Using Images to Open Up Dialogue After Violence
Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, volume 10, issue 3 (2015), pp. 74-88
"This article begins with a literature review of Participatory Photography (PP) that highlights how this tool has been mostly implemented for action research, advocacy, and public health purposes. It shows how scholars have only quite recently begun to recognise its ability to generate change among
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Surface Tension: Navigating Socially Engaged Documentary Photographic Practices
Nordicom Review, volume 36, issue Special Issue (2015), pp. 79-95
"As Documentary Photographers increasingly introduce the collaborative and participatory methodologies common to socially engaged art practices into their projects (particularly those that are activist in nature, seeking to catalyse social change agendas and policies through image making and sharing
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Social Photography: Make All Your Smartphone Photos One in a Billion
Lewes, East Sussex: Ilex (2014), 159 pp.
"Social Photography will show you how to create photos that will be clicked on, liked, shared, and maybe even go viral. A must for anyone who takes their online profile seriously, it will show you how to give your photos a fresh look, it will give you hundreds of posing and shooting ideas, and it wi
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La comunicación mediatizada: Hegemonías, alternatividades, soberanías
Buenos Aires: Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO) (2009), 239 pp.
Sin rastro, imágenes para construir memoria
Bogotá: Fundación Dos Mundos; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) (2008), 125 pp.
"Este libro es una selección de imágenes del Concurso Nacional de Fotografía sobre Desaparición Forzada 'Sin Rastro." (Página 1)
The PhotoVoice Manual: A Guide to Designing and Running Participatory Photography Projects
Key Guides
London: PhotoVoice (2007), 128 pp.
"The manual is intended to give an introduction to the power of participatory photography as a tool for social change with marginalised and vulnerable groups. Produced in response to the many enquires requesting advice on how to set up a participatory photography project it offers tips and suggestio
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Representing HIV/AIDS in Africa: Pluralist Photography and Local Empowerment
International Studies Quarterly, volume 51, issue 1 (2007), pp. 139-163
"This essay explores the nature and political consequences of representing HIV/AIDS in Africa, where the disease has taken its greatest toll. We examine how different methods of photography embody different ideologies through which we give meaning to political phenomena. We distinguish three photogr
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