Photography

Exactitudes – categorizing with the camera

May 6, 2011
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Exactitudes – categorizing with the camera

I am interested in the ways people use photography to capture the specific and link it to the more general and vice a versa… to do the work of coding and categorizing – so often aimed at in research – using the visual as the primary tool. So here is a cool project looking...

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Visual Ethnographies of Place – during and after

April 29, 2011
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Visual Ethnographies of Place – during and after

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...

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Participatory Ethnography – One Arm Point Community School Culture Program

April 8, 2011
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Participatory Ethnography – One Arm Point Community School Culture Program

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...

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Highrise – 360 Documentary

March 25, 2011
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Highrise – 360 Documentary

Following on from the National Film Board of Canada’s desire to continue participatory film making into the digital age they have produced an ambitious participatory digital ethnography project called High Rise. NFB calls High Rise a 360 degree documentary – by which they mean it is an interactive documentary – a field growing in...

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PhotoVoice Charity turns 10 years old

June 2, 2010
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PhotoVoice Charity turns 10 years old

Interested in global movements in participatory photography? Check out the newsletter from PhotoVoice marking their 10 year anniversary…

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Online images from “Places I Carry With Me” exhibition

May 25, 2010
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Online images from “Places I Carry With Me” exhibition

For those of you interested in seeing works from my recent exhibition at ANCA Gallery in Canberra, Australia, but couldn’t make it in person, there are now a selection of images from the show on display in the Side by Side online gallery.

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searching for eldorado

May 19, 2010
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searching for eldorado

In the growing tradition of using participatory photography as a tool in the empowerment of marginalised young people, the searching for eldorado project (procurando eldorado in Portugues), which happened in Sao Paolo, Brazil in 2004/05, got young people (10-18 yrs) from that community to create a picture portrait of their community using digital photography....

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Pinhole photography from Chiapas

May 1, 2010
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Pinhole photography from Chiapas

Check out recent work from 3 Indigenous women photographers who have been participating in a pinhole photography workshop with Rachel Sokal, new employee of AFI/CPP…. click here to see a taster of an upcoming pinhole exhibition they are putting together. Those of you who have looked at recent Side by Side online gallery exhibitions...

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Maya’s exhibition in Canberra, Australia

April 28, 2010
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Maya’s exhibition in Canberra, Australia

Opening today at ANCA Gallery, Rosevear St, Dickson in Canberra, Australia, is a solo exhibition of photographic and other works by Maya. Featuring works made in Japan, Mexico, Louisiana USA and various parts of Australia this is the first time for Australian audiences to see a body of work spanning 4 years and 3...

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Exhibition from Refugia Guzmán Pérez, Ch’ol photographer from Chiapas Mexico

February 14, 2010
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Exhibition from Refugia Guzmán Pérez, Ch’ol photographer from Chiapas Mexico

Side by Side Gallery is proud to present the online exhibition “From the Rural Community to the City- The Chol ethnic group in Chiapas, Mexico” -photographic works by Refugia Guzmán Pérez, a Ch’ol photographer from the Chiapas Photography Project (CPP) and the Archivo Fotográfico Indígena (AFI) – Chiapas, Mexico. Read an introduction to the exhibition...

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