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Photovoice

FSN Network

Photovoice is a participatory photography activity to understand diverse experiences and to advocate for change. Photovoice can empower participants and allow teams to see things through ‘new lenses’.

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South Park Library

South Park PhotoVoice presents "Change," an exhibit defining youth's ideas of Change and its impact in their daily lives and their community. Through the use of photography and creative writing, students identify the changes taking place in their lives and consider which of those changes they should encourage and those they should not.

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Mental Health Students/Faculty

University of South Florida

Photovoice is a participatory action research method that engages community stakeholders to photograph areas of strength and concern related to a health issue and then critically analyze in focus-group discussion how and why the health concern persists in their community, toward the goal of co-identifying opportunities for change and health improvement. For the Brave Takes project in conjunction with the This Is My Brave 2023 show on the USF campus, we are applying the Photovoice method to bring stories of mental illness and addiction into focus and to the attention of our campus community. The mission of Brave Takes is to empower USF students as well as faculty and staff to share their personal stories of recovery and visions for change while controlling their level of disclosure of their identity in public.

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Food insecurity

West Virginia University

Picturing a Nourished Community: Strengthening Food Security in Appalachia with the Help of PhotoVoice By Laura Johnston, activist and member of the AppalFRESH (Appalachian Food Research for Equity, Sustainability, and Health) Collaborative. Exhibit: https://foodjusticeexhibit.wvu.edu/files/d/e4ead95b-69f1-4800-93bf-2eefc55e1839/complete-photovoice-exhibit.pdf

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Univeristy of California

YPAR is an innovative approach to positive youth and community development based in social justice principles in which young people are trained to conduct systematic research to improve their lives, their communities, and the institutions intended to serve them.

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Community, Public Health

University of Michigan

University of Michigan shows teens documenting their public health concerns.

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Youth topics

Photovoice Hamilton

Shows the process video for the Photovoice youth program. The exhibition was held in November 2008. For more information and to view a selection of this year's photos, visit www.photovoice.ca

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Environment

Elementary school

A short documentary made about a project at an inner-city Toronto school in which young students were given a disposable camera to capture what they considered their environment. Images were taken by the children and they were interviewed about their reflections. Honestly in it's most uncynical form.

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Photovoice

Photovoicekit.org

Scroll to bottom of page to play animation that explains photovoice.

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Photovoice

Caroline Wang

Explanation of the process, from the Photovoice website prepared by Caroline Wang.

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Sexual violence

NSVRC

NSVRC Evaluation Coordinator talks to collaborative partners from PhotoVoice Worldwide and local preventionists in Ohio that worked with the Ohio Alliance to End Sexual Violence in creating a culturally responsive and anti-violence centric toolkit on how to use Photovoice in sexual violence prevention work.

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Health

NPR

Let Me Show You What Keeps Me From Being Healthy - article with Photovoice exhibits: pictures with captions from dialogue.

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Indeemo

Photovoice Research platform

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Josh Schacter Photography

Listing of close to 50 community-based media & storytelling organizations. Many are focused on youth, indgenous peoples, refugees, immigrants, underserved communities in US, Canada, East Africa

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Adobe

Elevating Diverse Voices. Everyone deserves the opportunity to create and make their voice heard. [Adobe] support creators of all ages and backgrounds so they can express themselves, use their creativity for good, and reach their full potential.

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Univeristy of Kansas

Implementing Photovoice in Your Community - Community Tool Box; Checklist, Examples ...

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Race, ethnicity, gender identity and sexual orientation; Health

Health Share of Oregon

Through a “Photovoice” project, Health Share has worked to broaden awareness of our members’ lived experiences relevant to intersecting identities, including race, ethnicity, gender identity and sexual orientation. Using Photography, Photovoice amplifies the voice of these individuals who may otherwise be unheard and help shed light on health challenges and community strengths.

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Health

Minnesota Department of Health

Students from 13 communities across the state were armed with Cameras and the mission to document their world with photograph to show the success and future possibilities. They were trained on the basics of photojournalism, then worked to document what was helping them stay healthy, and what was holding them back. They then captioned the photo's to tell a story of what's going on in their community. This project was funded by the Minnesota Department of Health and the CDC.

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Youth voice

Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium - ERLC

In response to the truth and reconciliation's call to action, the Photovoice Project was designed to create a unique opportunity for students to share their perceptions and comments of what health and well-being looks like through the eyes of First Nations, Métis and Inuit (FNMI) students. https://youtu.be/JunVSN9D5GI Alberta Regional Professional Development Consortia (ARPDC)

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Public Health

Wang C, Burris MA. Photovoice: Concept, Methodology, and Use for Participatory Needs Assessment. Health Education & Behavior. 1997;24(3):369-387.

Photovoice is a process by which people can identify, represent, and enhance their community through a specific photographic technique. As a practice based in the production of knowledge, photovoice has three main goals: (1) to enable people to record and reflect their community's strengths and concerns, (2) to promote critical dialogue and knowledge about important issues through large and small group discussion of photographs, and (3) to reach policymakers. Applying photovoice to public health promotion, the authors describe the methodology and analyze its value for participatory needs assessment. They discuss the development of the photovoice concept, advantages and disadvantages, key elements, participatory analysis, materials and resources, and implications for practice.

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The Prairie Women’s Health Centre of Excellence

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO PHOTOVOICE: SHARING PICTURES, TELLING STORIES AND CHANGING COMMUNITIES - The locations represented in this guide include the prairie region of Canada, the Saskatoon Housing Coalition, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Regina, Saskatchewan, and Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.

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Health, Welfare, Education, Opportunity, Security

PhotovoiceWorldwide

Examples from locations: Framingham, Massachusetts, US; Youth Academy, Mdantsane, Eastern Cape, South Africa; Lexington, Massachusetts, US; Houston, Texas, US