Photo-eliciting technique as an integrated meaning-making practice: an introspective look at diversity, identities, and voice-giving. Issue 1 (15th March 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Gube, Jan
• Is Part Of: Visual studies. Volume 37:Issue 1/2(2022)
• Page Start: 116
• Page End: 127
• Publication Date: 2022-03-15
• Subjects: Visual perception -- Periodicals; Visual anthropology -- Periodicals; Visual sociology -- Periodicals; 301
• DOI: 10.1080/1472586X.2020.1854053
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1472-586X

Abstract

Abstract : The affordance of participant voice is a widely acclaimed feature of photo-eliciting techniques. Yet, how this voice is afforded to participants is not always elaborated. This article reflects on the use of a photo-eliciting technique in an ethnically diverse context. Using a study with a group of Filipino youth in Hong Kong, the article draws attention to methodological considerations that led to the design of a photo-eliciting technique in interviews that elicited deeper thinking from participants. The analysis constructs the technique as a meaning-making practice to illustrate the interconnections between epistemological stance, methodological decisions and interpretive exercises in the study, which altogether constitute the practice of voice-giving to participants. The attention to voice-giving indicates the need for researchers to pay more regard to the reflexivity and the intricate ordering of epistemethodological aspects of photo-eliciting techniques that underpin the 'who' and 'how' of making participants' voice heard.