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Photography, Storytelling, and Community Connections: How to Develop a Photovoice Project A free Public Library Association webinar

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Photography, Storytelling, and Community Connections: How to Develop a Photovoice Project

A free Public Library Association webinar

Agenda

• What Is Photovoice

• Forced Migration Photovoice Project

• Partnerships & Participants

• How to Do Photovoice

• Exhibit Opening

• Developing and Marketing the Exhibit

• From a Participant’s Perspective: Guest Speakers –Wamisho & TG

• Resources

• Contact Information

• Created by Dr. Caroline Wang and Dr. Mary Ann Burris in 1992

• Participants are asked to record and reflect their personal and community strengths and concerns

• Promotes critical dialogue and enhances knowledge about issues through group discussions of photographs

• Reaches policy makers

• This approach is used world-wide by many different groups

What Is Photovoice?

Forced Migration Photovoice Project

• Started in 2013

• Grant-funded

• Community history

• Empowering story-telling

• Out-reach initiative

Forced Migration Photovoice Project

Ibrahim, My New Homeland — A Bright Present and a Hopeful Future, 2016

Mario, Chicago at Night: Colorful Reflection of the City in the Chicago River, 2013

• Who are your participants? Who are your partners?

• What is the focus of your project?

• What types of cameras will you use?

• How often will you meet? How long will each session be?

• Where will you meet?

• What will you do with the photos and stories?

Forced Migration Photovoice Project

Partnerships & ParticipantsKey Partners:• Community organizations: Our project grew out of an existing partnership between

Chicago Public Library and Heartland Alliance• Photography experts: Invite photographer or photography student to give feedback and

instruction

Who Participates: • Refugees, political asylum seekers and others forced to migrate due to persecution in

their home country

When selecting participants to join your project, consider the following:• Identify any barriers to participation• Create an environment that builds trust

Photovoice Introductory Session

• Informed consent

• Camera instruction and safety

• Connect to community history

• What do you want to name your project?

Photographer, Maryan, 2013

RLVCC 1.753 Summerdale residents in 1888

• Create a welcoming and safe atmosphere

• Encourage descriptions and discussion among group members

• Photovoice “PHOTO” questions (adapted for this project)

• Describe your Picture.

• What is Happening in your picutre?

• Why did you take a photo Of this?

• What does this photo Tell us about your life?

• How does this photo provide us an Opportunity to learn about your

experiences in Chicago?

Photovoice Discussion Sessions

• Handling difficult topics that emerge

• Timekeeping – set timer on phone

• Make time to process with group leaders, incorporate input from

participant

• Photographer provides feedback on composition and strength of image

• Ask each participant to select their favorite photo after each session to

help them start thinking about which photo they will choose for the exhibit

Photovoice Discussion Sessions

Photo Selection, Story Writing and Public Speaking

• Ask lots of open-ended questions

• Be supportive of all photos and stories to not influence their decision

• Encourage them to write in the language they find it easiest to express their ideas

• Practice public speaking before the exhibit opening

Exhibit Opening• Create a safe way for participants to share their

story with the community

• Conduct a dress rehearsal to prepare all speakers

• Invite past participants to come early and meet the new participants

• Acknowledge and thank past participants for attending in opening remarks

• Celebrate!

Exhibit Opening

• If journalists attend, ask them to check-in with you at event upon arrival.

• For Thank You packets for participants, we include the following: • Thank you letter• Public transportation passes• Framed photo of their exhibit photo and

a photo of them taken at the exhibit opening

World Refugee Day Celebration, Chicago, 2015 and 2016

Community Art Exhibit at Alderman Pawar’s Office, 2017

Developing and Marketing the Exhibit

Developing and Marketing the Exhibit

Uncommon Ground on Devon Restaurant, 2018

Wamisho, The Beauty of Summer in Chicago, 2016

Wamisho’sPhotovoiceExperience

TG’s Photovoice Experience

TG, Behind the Building, 2014

Resources

• Online Exhibit, Picturing a New Life in Chicago, Forced Migration PhotovoiceProject, Chicago Public Library

www.chipublib.org/photovoice

• Video of 10 Composition Tips from Steve McMurray

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPU4WJG1eH8

• Wang, Caroline and Mary Ann Burris. “Photovoice: Concept, Methodology, and Use for Participatory Needs Assessment.” Health Education & Behavior, vol. 24, no. 3, 1997, pp. 369-387. Accessed 25 Aug. 2018.

http://strive.lshtm.ac.uk/sites/strive.lshtm.ac.uk/files/wang%20concept%20and%09%20methodology.pdf

Contact Information

• Mary Black, MS, OTR/L Occupational Therapist, Heartland Alliance, Marjorie Kovler Center• [email protected]

• Nancy Joyce Callahan, Hospitality Training Program for Refugees and Asylees, Heartland Alliance, Refugee and Immigrant Community Services• [email protected]

• Julie Lynch, Librarian, Chicago Public Library, Sulzer Regional Library• [email protected]