How do we use visual ethnography to represent places? Landscape images alone often render a place somewhat opaque – capturing a static moment, leaving out the dynamism of country, weather, sensory experience, encounters, people and their lived stories. For me some of the most successful uses of the visual in telling stories of place...
See this recently posted musing on participation and collaboration on Savage Minds blog… It pertains specifically to social and digital media technologies and the resulting communities, but presents an interesting typology… Any thoughts from others on the nature of participation and collaboration in media/arts/ethnographic contexts?
Recently published by Magabala Books is “Our World: Bardi Jaawi Life at Ardiyooloon”, a collaborative ethnography of Bardi culture as enacted through the One Arm Point Community School Culture Program. One Arm Point is an Aboriginal community on the Dampier Penninsula, North West of Broome, Western Australia. The book draws on materials made out...
Checkout the newest offering from the Neighborhood Story Project in New Orleans: “After a season of writing workshops on the backside of the Fair Grounds, the Neighborhood Story Project has produced an exhibition of open letters written by jockeys, trainers, grooms, hotwalkers, veterinarians and track employees… Each year, more than 700 workers arrive in...
Out of South Australia comes the newest incarnation of Big Stories Small Towns, a project in which resident film makers have made portrait films about people in the communities of Port Augusta, Murray Bridge and Raukkan. There are also some films made by community members themselves, these are well worth having a look at,...