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About Us
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Photovoice
Visual Storytelling
Visual Storytelling
Photovoice puts cameras directly in the hands of communities and asks them to document aspects of their lives on a specific issue or theme. Their photographs/videos become the catalyst to frame the narrative that they want to tell about their lives and community while providing essential data on the needs and strengths of communities. Pho
Photovoice puts cameras directly in the hands of communities and asks them to document aspects of their lives on a specific issue or theme. Their photographs/videos become the catalyst to frame the narrative that they want to tell about their lives and community while providing essential data on the needs and strengths of communities. Photovoice has proven to be successful in engaging and elevating the voices of communities that are typically silenced or ignored.
Visual Storytelling
Visual Storytelling
Visual Storytelling
We support NGOs and Organizations seeking to produce compelling visual stories to reach funders, create campaigns, and achieve communication goals, utilizing both visual storytelling and qualitative research methods designed to reach organizational objectives.
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Our Mission
Visual Storytelling
Our Mission
Empowering communities and organizations through visual storytelling to communicate effectively and influence social change. We envision an equitable world where all voices are heard and recognized in the decision-making process, which affects their lives, regardless of race, religion, identity, gender, or class.
Photovoice HISTORY
Participatory Photography
- Photovoice was developed in 1992 by feminist scholars Caroline C. Wang and Mary Ann Burris, who deployed the method to empower the voices of village women in rural China. As a practice-based development of knowledge and inquiry, photovoice has three main goals: (1) to enable people to record and reflect their concerns, as well as those of their community; (2) to promote critical dialogue and knowledge about important issues of equality and social justice through large and small group discussion of photographs, and (3) to influence change- and reach policymakers (Wang & Burris,1997).
- Wang (2005) identifies three major theoretical underpinnings supporting Photovoice. The first, documentary photography, is based on the premise that providing a camera to people who might not normally have access to one will empower them to record and instigate change in their communities. The second is Paulo Freire's (1970)theory of critical consciousness, which seeks to engage individuals in the questioning of their historical–social situation. The third feminist theory is meant to empower vulnerable populations, value knowledge grounded in experience.