PhotoVoice - involving people in defining issues through critical dialogue

Description

Photovoice turns on involving people in defining issues. Such an approach avoids the distortion of fitting data into a predetermined paradigm; through it we hear and understand how people make meaning themselves, or construct what matters to them. Photovoice, to paraphrase Glik, Gordon, Ward, Kouame, and Guessan, is not simply the shuffling of information around, but entails people reflecting on their own community portraits and voices and on what questions can be linked into more general constructs or can be seen to be interrelated. It is a method that enables people to define for themselves and others, including policy makers, what is worth remembering and what needs to be changed.

Original URL

http://people.umass.edu/afeldman/Photovoice.htm

http://people.umass.edu/afeldman/Photovoice.htm