Category: Multilingual

Creating our own image, whether it is in research or in art, is a constant conversation with the images already in our heads. In the case of refugees, these images are shaped by mediatised and politicised realities that obscure the capacity to s…

This article reconfigures and reflects on the author’s visual essay “MOLLusCS + mollUScs” (2019), which assembled narration on human-mollusc correspondences and a series of three black and white photos. With the aim to employ the trope of presen…

Reflecting on the use of different tools within anthropological research and its outcomes, as well as positioning these tendencies within recent debates in the discipline, the article draws attention to the importance of form – the poetics of et…

In 2008, an Indigenous Australian artist based in Melbourne – Maree Clarke (Mutti Mutti/ Wemba Wemba/Boonwurrung) – created a kangaroo-teeth necklace, revivifying an art and cultural practice for the first time in over a century. She was inspire…

Incorporating moving and still images and audio within the text, I examine in this article how site-specific augmented reality (AR) can convey ethnographic research and forms of embodied knowledge through emplacing the audience and engaging thei…

Within the context of datafication, participatory surveillance capitalism, and prospering rhetoric about scientific insight from big data exists the practice of data shadow donation. This relational activity refers to the digital gifting of pers…

An introduction to the special issue, this article sets the stage for the essays that compose it. It addresses the transformations that have been taking place in the recent decades in the terrain of image-making, visual culture, visual technolog…

The aim of this paper is to address the potential of combining the focus group method with photo-elicitation in ethnographic research. The paper is based on my own experience with a photo-elicitation focus group (PEFG) consisting of five communi…

While photography has a long history of being used by anthropologists, not much has been written of the use of anthropology by photographers. Based on my personal experiences of two distinct ethnographic fieldworks, I argue that these two practi…

The aim of this article is to present the research programme Visual Trust. Reliability, Accountability and Forgery in Scientific, Religious and Social Images. The main objective of this programme is to explore how people from different countries…

How does one map and visualise the complex arrangements of computer vision technologies used in the field of security in a collaborative setting where the research participants come from different scholarly traditions? This paper is an account o…

Abstract= Interactive documentary are epistemological tools that can help shaping and fostering comparative reflections in collaborative ethnographic projects. This paper analyses the process of planning and coding a digital platform – an intera…

Four of the five articles in this special issue are authored by members of the Food Citizens? team. Together with our colleagues from the Security Vision project (fifth article), we reflect on the epistemological and methodological practices fol…

With the ongoing penetration of digital technologies and tools across the world, the act of conducting visual research increasingly entails a capacity to incorporate a broader horizon characterised by multimodality and multisensoriality, by algo…

The article investigates urban gardening in Turin with ethnography, historical analysis and photography, using both the authors’ photography and sources from social media and private archives. The authors collaborate to analyse ‘community’ garde…