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four note friday 2.22 | What is auto-photovoice?

Earlier today, I read a journal article titled Auto-photovoice: A Reflexive Extension of Photovoice Methodology and Its Practice in a COVID-Quarantined Community Psychology Course recently published i…

6d ago·7 min read·1334 words

four note friday 2.21 | Photovoice Workshop, Day 2 Reflections

As promised last week, this week's post is dedicated to sharing ongoing reflections on the photovoice workshop I hosted last weekend. The event was such a blast overall—I miss the space, and I miss th…

May 22·8 min read·1581 words

four note friday 2.20 | Photovoice Workshop, Day 1 Reflections

Today was Day 1 of a two-day photovoice workshop I am hosting here in Muncie, Indiana. Just a bit ago, I arrived home buzzing with excitement and tiredness. I've done loads of public speaking, present…

May 15·6 min read·1104 words

four note friday 2.19 | Photovoice, Evidence, Salience, and Power

I've been thinking a lot about the policy and social change efforts that flow from photovoice projects. In previous posts, I have written about the aims of photovoice, one of which is reaching policy …

May 8·1 min read·91 words

four note friday 2.18 | Take-Aways from "Rebraiding Photovoice: Methodological Métissage at the Cultural Interface"

I've long admired Marc Higgins's contributions to the methodological literature on photovoice—so much so that I invited him to blurb my book. For this week's post, I've reread his 2014 piece titled "R…

May 1·1 min read·94 words

four note friday 2.17 | Photovoice and the View-Master Toy

Earlier this week, I was spending time in my on-campus office thinking about how it needs a refresh. After working at the institution for 15 years, it's become equal parts office and storage unit. As …

Apr 24·1 min read·104 words

four note friday 2.16 | Reflections from a Recent Photovoice Workshop

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to facilitate a photovoice workshop at Western Michigan University (WMU) at the invitation of dear friend and colleague Dr. Regina Garza Mitchell. It was an inspi…

Apr 17·1 min read·91 words

four note friday 2.15 | Photovoice and AI Voice

A few posts ago, I wrote about the possibility of a second edition of my book on the photovoice methodology. I outlined several topics that now need consideration for edition two. Generative AI was on…

Apr 10·1 min read·93 words

four note friday 2.14 | Reflections on the Photovoice Futures Podcast

I recently finished up creating a three-episode podcast nano-series featuring interviews with doctoral students using photovoice or photovoice-adjacent approaches within their dissertations. Being in …

Apr 4·1 min read·83 words

four note friday 2.13 | A Second Edition of My Photovoice Book?

My book on the photovoice methodology (Routledge, 2017) was released nearly 10 years ago. See above for an amazing photograph of the book sent to me by Subarna Basu (had no idea book bedazzling was a …

Mar 27·1 min read·102 words

four note friday 2.12 | Photovoice and the Dissertation, Part 2

As I mentioned a few weeks ago (see here), I had/have more to say about photovoice and the dissertation. A photovoice dissertation is a complex process, as all dissertations are, that requires a lot o…

Mar 20·1 min read·97 words

four note friday 2.11 | Photovoice Google Alert Article Roundup

As I argued in a previous post, keeping up with photovoice projects-in-motion around the world can be achieved, in part, by setting up a Google Alert. And in that previous post, I provided the details…

Mar 13·1 min read·101 words

four note friday 2.10 | Photovoice, Empathy, and Photography Exercises

It's spring break at my institution, and I have been traveling (i.e., working from away). While browsing a museum gift shop a few days ago, I came across the book One Photo a Day Keeps the Doctor Away…

Mar 6·1 min read·104 words

four note friday 2.9 | Photovoice and the Dissertation

This is likely post one of a series. There is certainly a lot to think about when your dissertation is a photovoice project. I am routinely in touch with doctoral students all across the globe who ar…

Feb 28·1 min read·87 words

four note friday 2.8 | Take-aways from 'Revisiting the Roots and Aims of Photovoice'

In this week's post, I share four take-aways from a semi-recent article (2022) by Robert W. Strack, Muhsin Michael Orsini, and D. Rose Ewald titled Revisiting the Roots and Aims of Photovoice. This pi…

Feb 20·1 min read·94 words

four note friday 2.7 | (some) Photovoice Adaptations

In previous posts, I have written about how photovoice has been adapted over time. Two such examples have included online photovoice and endarkened photovoice. Here I will introduce four additional ph…

Feb 13·1 min read·87 words

four note friday 2.6 | Photovoice Apps, Part 2

This post is the second part of a two-part series focused on photovoice apps—or Googling the phrase photovoice apps. In last week's post, I focused on EthOS, Indeemo, PhotoVoice Connect, and Instagram…

Feb 7·1 min read·88 words

four note friday 1.12 | Take-aways from 'The Tai Qi of Photovoice'

A little while ago, I came across a recent (2022) article written by Caroline C. Wang, one of the original creators of the photovoice methodology. When I was writing my dissertation, I tried to reach…

Oct 10·1 min read·101 words