{"id":5676,"date":"2015-09-10T17:06:59","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T00:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dminlgp\/?p=5676"},"modified":"2015-09-10T17:06:59","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T00:06:59","slug":"my-first-attempt-becoming-visually-ethnographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/my-first-attempt-becoming-visually-ethnographic\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Attempt @becoming Visually Ethnographic"},"content":{"rendered":"

If I were to have posted this picture of my view of my classroom last week while reading, I would have written about it telling the reader about how it is a picture of my classroom.\u00a0 I would tell you what each artifact in the image means and represents.\u00a0 I would control this image and hopefully what you thought of it. I would even have communicated how I was reading Doing Visual Ethnography<\/i> by Sarah Pink in my classroom which I sometimes make my office.\u00a0 However, a few days and a couple hundred pages of Pink later, and in attempting to be a visual ethnographer, I would now do things differently.<\/p>\n

Because I now know that images are everywhere and are \u201cinterwoven with our personal identities, narratives, lifestyles, cultures and societies, as well as with definitions of history, time, space, place, reality, and truth\u201d (Pink 1), and that visual ethnography is \u201can invitation to engage with images\u201d (Pink 1), I would post the same picture and then invite<\/i> you to an interaction, or negotiation, if you will.\u00a0 This, as Pink suggests, is \u201can approach to the visual that departs from conventional cultural studies treatments (Pink 5).\u00a0 By inviting you to interact with this photo, I am giving up some control and power over it.<\/p>\n

After our interaction together, I would invite you to write a response.\u00a0 I would do this because, even though ethnographic knowledge may be experienced and represented in a range of different textual, visual an other sensory ways (Pink 10), visual representations cannot replace words in a conventional theoretical discussion.\u00a0 So please comment!<\/p>\n

Like the book does, I invite you to \u201cengage with this approach\u201d (Pink 11).\u00a0 As a first-time visual ethnographer in the school of Sarah Pink, I am more \u201cconcerned with the production of knowledge and ways of knowing\u201d (Pink 35), rather than simply collecting data.\u00a0 Please feel the freedom to bring your own consciousness to this picture. Imagine. Invoke meaning. Interpret.\u00a0 Ask. Feel. Sense.<\/p>\n

Please know that as a fellow LGP6 cohort member, I am careful how I am representing myself and I also understand that my identity is constructed and understood by my fellows in this cohort based on subjective understandings which can have signifiant implications (Pink 37).\u00a0 I also know that I am part of the context (Pink 47) of this iPhone photo.<\/p>\n

As your mind (and heart!)takes-in this photograph, be aware that it is not just a record of what I saw, but it is a \u201croute\u201d through which we can both come understand what we do not see. It is taken from one point of view, and it was taken \u201cin\u201d the world (Pink 38-40).\u00a0 As we discuss what we both bring to this image we become aware that any meaning is not in the picture, but will come \u201cthrough the picture\u201d (Pink 92).\u00a0 Aside: It is really hard not to think of John 1 and the invisible God as the one who we see \u201cthrough the picture\u201d of Jesus.<\/p>\n

According to Pink there is never a single correct moment to take a picture or video.\u00a0 Sometimes the best time is at the beginning of research, sometimes it can be several months into the project (Pink 78, 110).\u00a0 I snapped this shot about halfway through the reading when I had the idea to try my hand at visual ethnography (or Week 3 of a 3-year DMin program).<\/p>\n

I want to invite you to approach this image in a reflexive manner which invites emotions, stories and will free you to think about relationships between processes, persons and things (Pink 147).\u00a0 Then the next step is to turn to your senses which Pink says is a more 21st Century way to interact with images (Pink 47).<\/p>\n

Because \u201cphotographs can be used to create representations that express experiences and ideas in ways that written words cannot (Pink 178), and because it is better for you to share your meanings before I add my own (Pink 149-150), I will hold back from giving you too much information about this image or me. Let\u2019s collaborate (Pink 198) and journal (Pink 204).<\/p>\n

Footnote: Knowing that how we approach and use the “web” today will probably be viewed as absurd in a very short time (Pink 123).<\/p>\n

\"Room<\/a>So, together, let us attempt to suspend judgement of this image and acknowledge our various personalized contexts, and the very specific shared context we all find ourselves in, and let\u2019s search together for the knowledge that we cannot yet see.\u00a0 Have fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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