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...
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...
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...
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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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.
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....
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...
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...
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...