1st Edition
Photography, Photographic Arts, and the Visual Research Process in Qualitative Inquiry
Photography, Photographic Arts and the Visual Research Process in Qualitative Inquiry is a book that introduces doctoral students and early career researchers to photography as a significant dimension of visual qualitative methods.
It examines the potential of photographic arts in qualitative research by highlighting theory and practice. Theories of photographic research and the types of photography within the genre are presented along with tips and exercises on how to conduct visual research through the use of photography. The central features of the book include learning to incorporate photography and photographic thinking through the arc of the research process. Question posing, data gathering, data analysis and presentation and dissemination of photographic research ae discussed. Ethics for photographic qualitative research is discussed. Learning to consider all senses for visual analysis and to consider issues of power and equity in photographic research are explained. Readers of the book can practice different ways to think about photographic research through the exercises and tips offered at the end of each chapter.
Graduate students and early career researchers who are interested in qualitative research will find this book valuable to learn and experiment with photography and photographic arts in visual qualitative research.
1. Introduction to Photographic Research
Introduction
Why we wrote this book
Photographic research over time
Features of the book
2. Ethics and photographic visual research
Approaches to Ethics in Photographic Research
Consent and Confidentiality
Early career researchers and IRB committees
Dignity of process, context and outcome
Ethics and challenges of ownership of photographs
Ongoing implications of technology tools
3. Ways of Seeing and Research Photography
Seeing Photographs as reality and as expressions of art
Photography as Performance or Performative Art
Photography as a research method
Photography in the field
Biographical and Autobiographical Research
Photo-story method
Theories and Concepts of Photography in Research
Social media photography as a form of visual communication
How can qualitative researchers make decisions about research questions in visual qualitative research?
4. Participatory Action Research (PAR) and Photography
Frameworks for PAR
Photovoice as Participatory Action Research
PAR and Photography Beyond Photovoice
Challenges of PAR
Collaborative Video and Filmmaking
Using Photographs to Build Rapport
5. Researcher Photography & Videography
Archival Photos
Found Photographs
Photodocumentary
Video data gathering
6. Protest Photography and Democratic Witnessing
Witnessing
Photo Contests
Can photographs replace writing field notes?
7. Land, place, context and photographic arts
Photographic Place and Site
Storyscapes as a way to document connections to land and place
Photomapping as a way to understand neighborhoods and community connections
Researching travel photography, volunteer tourism, or voluntourism
Guided tour as methodology for understanding place
8. Interviews and Photography
Visual Data and Photographic data
Absent Photographs
Reflexive Photography
Exploring Photo albums, posed photographs, and narrative strategies
Tips and practical considerations for researchers using photographs in qualitative research interviews
Using Photography with Interviews as a Decolonizing Method
9. Photographic data analysis and display
Differences between researcher generated photographs and participant generated photographs
Interpreting photographic data in conjunction with visual data
Analyzing Photographic Data
Analyzing Video based data
Cultural Studies Approach to photographic analysis
Iconologic image analysis – Panofsky’s method
Hermeneutic analysis
Pierre Bourdieu and analyzing photographic data
Data Analysis : When is the right time to start analyzing photographs?
Coding Photographs as Part of Data Analysis
10. Writing, exhibitions, narratives, and photography
Writing and Displaying photographic research
Different ways to write with photography
Narrative photography
Conclusion or a Pause in the Conversation
An Invitation to Continue the Conversation
Biography
Raji Swaminathan, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Educational Policy & Community Studies in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has served as Director of Doctoral Studies and Chair of the Department and is a recipient of the university’s Faculty Teaching and Faculty Research Awards. She is interested and works in the areas of qualitative research, youth resilience, urban and alternative schools, creative pedagogies, and school leadership.
Thalia M. Mulvihill, Ph.D., Professor of Higher Education and Social Foundations and Provost Faculty Fellow at Ball State University. She has served as Director of two doctoral programs, the Director of the Certificate Program in Qualitative Research & Education, and the Director of the Certificate Program in College and University Teaching. A recipient of numerous outstanding teaching, research, and mentoring awards, she is engaged in the study of historical and sociological issues in the fields of higher education, qualitative inquiry, innovative pedagogies, and educational leadership.
