Participant Authored Audiovisual Stories (PAAS): Giving The Camera Away or giving the camera a way?

Authored by Marcelo Ramella and Gonzalo Olmos .This paper deals with qualitative research methodology based on sound and image data, in particular with audio-visual stories authored by the research participants (Participant
Authored Audiovisual Stories - PAAS). Read more

Uniting Kids with Cameras

At the end of 1998 my friend Jill Mott left her job as a photographer at the Fort Collins Coloradoan to become a volunteer in Zimbabwe. She was placed as a photographer with an organization producing a feature film in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe. During this time she also worked with local arts organizations and out of theses contacts the idea for Kids with Cameras was born. Read more

Everyday life in Cambodia – as seen through the eyes of children

In February 2003. I went to Cambodia for the first time. I am a Norwegian journalist, my name is Anne-Lise Aakervik, and my knowledge of the country at that time was of the terrible civil war in the 70’s and the killing of millions of people during the regime of Pol Pot. Read more

E. Timor kids show their world through camera’s eye

A bright-faced boy jubilantly clutching a cockerel, a swaddled baby asleep in the sunlight, a contemplative girl crouching by the wooden cross of a loved one’s makeshift grave. These are a few of the photographs taken by 101 East Timor children who held a camera for the first time in their lives in a unique program organized by a Japanese photographer. Read more

The Lives Of Child Workers In Nepal

By Sita Venkateswar. This phase of the research was undertaken as a pilot study involving children employed in carpet factories in Nepal and those employed as domestic servants in middle class homes, using disposable cameras to document and recount their everyday lives.

While in Kathmandu, I made contact with a number of non-governmental organisations involved in working in a variety of contexts with children in need. The Child Development Society (CDS) has been involved in imparting literacy and non-formal education to children and their parents who work in carpet factories. On discussing my project with the CDS, they were very interested in integrating the research into their own ongoing programmes with the working children. The children who were involved in these programmes were also keen to participate in the project, as were their parents. Ten children and their parents were selected, based on their attendance at these programmes, and their degree of articulacy. The use of disposable cameras was included as one of CDS’ strategies for non-formal education for the subsequent months. The children’s narratives were extended by asking them also to write and illustrate any aspect of their lives by providing them with notebooks, pencils, erasers and colour pencils. Read more