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Abstract. This invited essay reflects upon the use of the photo essay within documentary photography. In particular, it compares Righteous Dopefiend, the much-lauded anthropological text by Philippe Bourgois with photographs by Jeff Schonberg, to work by photographers exploring similar subject matter. It aims to tease out some of the essential ...

Given the specificities of a photo essay — light on text, heavy on photos — it may be helpful to conceptualize your photo essay around a discrete concept or theme. This might mean thinking about how to visually represent a concept that has been important to your written research — one that you feel is important engage a public audience, or that could be useful in public discourse ...

The Photo-Essay's Bark. Reading the Writing with Light print issue no. 1, courtesy of Zahira Aragüete-Toribio. The compelling force of the photo-essay as a format is, among others, its ability to weave a complex social encounter through entangled visual and interpretative pathways that playfully construct ethnographic and artistic meaning ...

As photography becomes more prevalent in ethnographic research, scholars should more seriously consider the photo essay as a medium for sharing their work. In this Position Piece, we present guidelines for the creation of ethnographic photo essays for medical anthropology that do not simply combine image and text, but create a balance that allows words to provide context for the image (s) and ...

The photo essay reproduced on the previous pages was created by the acclaimed British photographer Roger Hutchings and edited specifically for an eight-page spread in Visual Anthropology Review.

The Photo Essay. 2016, Visual Anthropology Review. The aim of this text is to explore the possibilities for the study of the photographic image in the scope of Visual Anthropology. It begins by presenting the predominance of the Visual in contemporary society and the current anthropological interest in the questions of visibility.

Abstract. This photo essay explores the practice of digital self-portraiture as an epistemological practice. Drawing on the well-established role of photography within the anthropological canon, this photo essay looks with a new criticality on the act of self-portraiture by an anthropologist as both performative praxis and ethnographic tool.

As photography becomes more prevalent in ethnographic research, scholars should more seriously consider the photo essay as a medium for sharing their work. In this Position Piece, we present guidelines for the creation of ethnographic photo essays for medical anthropology that do not simply combine image and text, but create a balance that allows words to provide context for the image(s) and ...

This invited essay reflects upon the use of the photo essay within documentary photography. In particular it compares Righteous Dopefiend, the much-lauded anthropological text by Philippe Bourgois with photographs by Jeff Schonberg, to work by photographers exploring similar subject matter. It aims to tease out some of the essential elements of the photo essay as well as the connections ...

We also want to support publications that are primarily visually based and are interested in the potential of the anthropological photo-essay or extended documentary project although there should always be some accompanying text that locates the images in relation to anthropology.

In 2010, a conversation was ignited over incorporating photo essays into the new Cultural Anthropology website. The conversation, which started about a photo essay project, quickly transformed into a discussion about disciplinary boundaries, peer review, and new directions in anthropology. With the understanding that so many anthropologists are engaged in alternative forms of critical ...

Laurence Cuelenaere is the 2022 winner of Current Anthropology 's Visual Anthropology Competition. Her work is featured on the cover of all standard issues of Current Anthropology ( CA) published in 2022. The photographs in her essay, "Journey to Amerika," were taken in Tapachula, which is known in Chiapas as "Prison City" (Mexico ...

Cultural Anthropology began publishing photo essays on its website in 2012, amid wide-ranging discussions about alternative forms of critical ethnographic expression. In 2016, this section was relaunched as a collaboration with the Society for Visual Anthropology known as Writing with Light.

Building on Ethnographic Terminalia's art-anthropology experiments at off-site locations, we decided to return to the American Anthropological Association annual meetings site in 2016 to re-examine the photo-essay within anthropological, photographic and publishing communities within the format of a workshop. 'The Photo-Essay is Dead, Long Live the Photo-Essay!' emulates our recent ...

Photo Essay: Seeing Displacement through Ethnographic Photography #LSEreturn. Visual and written narratives about conflict and victimhood tend to generate a series of much-repeated tropes. In this article, LSE's Elizabeth Storer unveils a project which seeks to present a more accurate portrayal of displacement through the medium of photography.

photo-essay-guide.pdf. UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

In addition, photography played an equally important role in authenticating the ethnographic authority of professional anthropologists. Photographs that accompanied published accounts squarely situated these scholars in the midst of the "strange" and "exotic" places and people they were describing.

The Writing with Light collective has decided to conclude the photo-essay project originally launched seven years ago as the Cultural Anthropology Photo Essay Initiative and relaunched three years ago as the Writing with Light photo-essays series. These initiatives provided an opportunity for us to focus closely on the photo-essay as a distinctly multimodal form of anthropology. They provided ...

This is a curated set of postcards for my studio "Postcards And Visual Anthropology: Visual Histories In Flux" Concept Note: This set of postcards narrate a story of Old Yelahanka that touches time…

Anthropology Now is a unique, peer-reviewed publication for research-based articles, book, film and exhibit reviews, photo essays and commentaries that are less focused on discussion within the discipline and more inclusive in sharing anthropological knowledge and perspectives with the well-informed general reader.

Return to Article Details Thinking through the Photo Essay: Observations for Medical Anthropology

Four examples of the photo essay Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg's celebrated book Righteous Dopefiend (2009) is an intimate, accessible and reflexive ethnography of drug addiction and homelessness as experienced by a small, marginalised group of middle-aged heroin and crack users in San Francisco.

Writing about anthropology for a general audience is different from writing for academics. An editor shares her expertise.