Participation for Engagement and Impact: A Conversation with Jennifer Maytorena Taylor
January 31, 2012
Documentary filmmaker Jennifer Maytorena Taylor is a research fellow here at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Her current work in progress is a web-based film project for Latino Public Broadcasting and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting called Street Knowledge to College. It explores how a small community-run charter school called FREE L.A. High works with youth to interrupt the school-to-jail track, both for themselves and for others. Read more
What I See, Who I Am!
October 19, 2011
Disabled children explore their world through photography, with help from College of Art and Design students at Princess Nora Bint Abdulrahman University, in Saudi Arabia.
This article is a guest feature by Janice Levy, a professor in the Department of Cinema, Photography, and Media Arts at Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY. Professor Levy spent ten months of her 2010-2011 sabbatical in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, teaching photography to young women at the newly established College of Fine Art and Design at Princess Nora bint Abdul Rahman University in Riyadh.
The Delhi Photo Festival
September 16, 2011
The Delhi Photo Festival, is India’s first international photography festival, a non-commercial venture to promote the photographic art, to be held from 15 to 28 October 2011. The festival is a joint initiative of Nazar Foundation and the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
Paris Photo, Rome’s Fotografia, London’s Street Photography Festival, Madrid’s Photo Espana, Berlin Photography Festival, New York Photo Festival, and Tokyo Photo are all photography festivals associated with great cities. Closer home, Chobi Mela in Dhaka, the Angkor Photo Festival in Cambodia & the Singapore International Photography Festival have established themselves as important Asian festivals. China already has 3 photo festivals of international repute. Such festivals of photography are becoming the focal points of popular culture around the world, an event both for a wide audience and for the experts, energizing the host city, bringing in visitors, placing it firmly on the world map as a cultural centre and even giving a fillip to the economy.
Photovoice Research: Examining The Transition to Manhood For Young Black Men in Los Angeles
November 16, 2010
Photovoice is a participatory photography and digital storytelling methodology proposed by Caroline C. Wang and Mary Ann Burris 1994. They described it as a process that “entrusts cameras to the hands of people to enable them to act as recorders, and potential catalysts for change, in their own communities,” in their 1997 essay Photovoice: Concept, methodology, and use for participatory needs assessment.
In practice, photovoice is often used by public health researchers, exclusively or in tandem with other methodologies, to develop qualitative data. Pictures taken by respondents are used as a tool to help them describe their lives and health concerns to researchers.
While still considered an avant-garde research technique, photovoice is an emerging tool in the medical field. It presents a new way to gather data but, at the same time, raises ethical questions for some researchers. UCLA health services PhD candidate Nazleen Bharmal, M.D., recently completed a photovoice project that examines the turbulent transition to manhood young black men face in Los Angeles. [LINK] Click on to read more about her experience with photovoice.
