“The pain is real”: A [modified] photovoice exploration of disability, chronic pain, and chronic illness (in)visibility

This study uses an innovative modification to Photovoice methodology to explore the lived experiences of people who have non-apparent disabilities, chronic pain and/or chronic illness. Responding to limitations to mobility, movement, transportation, capacity, and access, the project provided a series of studio sessions with a professional photographer, in which participants directed the content and quality of photographs documenting their experiences with disability, chronic pain and/or chronic illness. Four themes emerged from the images and writing: unfettered anger, challenging expectations, duality of reality, and resistance/resilience. Social workers can use these findings and arts-based methodology to help build community among marginalized groups.

Development and validation of protocols for photographed food record by visually impaired people

Objective: To develop and validate protocols for photographed food record directed to visually impaired people. Design: Photographic techniques were established for capturing food images using a smartphone, and written protocols were defined. Thereafter, visually impaired people made photographic records of three standardised meals (breakfast, lunch/dinner, and snack) following the previously developed protocols. These photographs were then evaluated by a panel of experts (nutritionists and photographer) to indicate whether the framing, focus and angle were suitable to identify the food type, food amount and portion size. Agreement between the experts was assessed using Fleiss’ Kappa. Setting: Natal, the capital of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Participants: Visually impaired people (n 40); nutritionists (n 2); professional photographer (n 1). Results: Both protocols obtained a high proportion of satisfactory photos for all the items in the three dimensions investigated. When overall quality was assessed, the experts’ agreement was a substantial that through the images it would be possible to identify the food type and portion size, both for Frontal Photos (k = 0·70 and k = 0·62, respectively) and Aerial Photos (k = 0·68 and k = 0·70, respectively). The degree of agreement that the photos presented a satisfactory global quality was moderate for the Frontal Photo (k = 0·43) and substantial for the Aerial Photo (k = 0·64). Participants who frequently used smartphone-type cell phones obtained better quality images for all these attributes for both protocols. Conclusions: The protocols for photographed food record developed for visually impaired people in this study are feasible and present themselves as an alternative strategy to qualitatively assess their dietary intake.

The Psychosocial Impact of Modifying Face and Body Photographs in Social Media

Social media usage has become widespread in the past decade, and studying its far-reaching impacts requires an interdisciplinary approach. This pilot study takes the first step in discovering the psychosocial impact of specific media content, modified face and body photographs, and the act of modifying in this context with a mixed-method assessment. The analysis is based on structured interviews with ten social media users with various demographic traits (such as gender, age, or education) who were presented eight pairs of "before-and-after modification" photographs and completed the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) to assess a possible relationship between modified face and body photographs in social media and depression. All the participants encountered such face and body photographs that they considered "modified". The definition of modification was "retouching, editing, using filters or any kind of digital altering mechanism". Seventy per cent of users admitted that they took the opportunity to modify photographs of their face and body. The average Beck score of the image modifiers was 7.14, while non-modifiers' was 2.33. Thirty per cent of the interviewees probably had mild depression or were in a mildly depressive state during the data collection based on their Beck scores; all were image modifiers exposed to modified pictures. Besides the fully structured interviews with social media users, half-structured interviews were also recorded with four experts – a social psychologist, a clinical psychologist, a plastic surgeon, and a professional photographer – to gain a deeper understanding of this complex topic and contribute to further, more extensive research on this area.

Interior Photograph Experiment of The House Tour Hotel Bandung

The rapid advancement of information and communication technology influences the growth of creative industries such as firms in the fields of architecture, real estate and interior. The firm uses the advantages of information and communication technology, namely the internet and social media to conduct marketing. The use of social media as a marketing strategy of real estate and interior firms today is increasingly used as a promotional medium. The use of photos especially for interior promotion requires good photography techniques, has the power to stir consumer perception of interior services. This research aims to conduct photography experiments on the interior of The House Tour Hotel, designed by an architecture firm called Be Good Design Architect, this experiment was conducted to find out the techniques of photography in photographing the interior. The method used is photography experimentation using photography techniques based on literature and photographic methods from interviews with professional photographer Mario Wibowo. The result of this experiment is interior photo taken from the bedroom room of The House Tour Hotel.

Queer urban activism under state impunity: Encountering an LGBTTTI Pride archive in Chilpancingo, Mexico

While southern Mexico’s state of Guerrero has faced rising socio-political violence and impunity for over a decade, with particular consequences for sexual and gender minorities, an LGBTTTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transgender, travesti and intersex) rights movement has simultaneously emerged in the state capital, Chilpancingo, and in other cities and towns. In 2002, activists organised the state’s first Pride march in this small, peripheral Latin American city, and each year since, people have gathered for what has become an annual event in this remote place nevertheless formed by what happens in distant centres of power. Also, LGBTTTI marches, parades, drag competitions and other events meant to orient the community and state institutions towards recognition of the rights of sexual and gender minorities have extended to public spaces across the state. This article examines this incongruous actuality through a study of the photos and videos in the private collection of a local activist and professional photographer, visual data that provide a unique record of how the local LGBTTTI movement has drawn on transnationally recognisable symbols and local cultural motifs to bring attention to violence experienced by its members. Building on a dense description of this archive, this paper argues that an identity-rights-based movement can coexist with a weak state that has abdicated its responsibility to guarantee basic human rights. Through its use of urban public spaces, such a movement can convey its message and draw people together, though given the limits of state-sanctioned impunity it may opt for strategic silence on wider socio-political issues in order to make specific advances.

Peace Corps Officials Visit Scene, Bail Is Sought, Peppy’s Body Is Flown to Dar es Salaam

Peace Corps country director Paul Sack, Nairobi pathologist Gerald Dockeray, and a professional photographer fly to Maswa, where the police inspector in charge of the case walks them through the scene and describes the potential eyewitness testimony. One witness saw Bill fighting with Peppy, and when the witness came close, Bill sent her away. Meanwhile, the bail hearing for Bill takes place in Mwanza. Although it would be most unusual to grant bail in a homicide case, Bill’s attorney argues that Bill’s health issues, pneumonia and depression, require his release. Bill is not released on bail. Peppy Kinsey’s body, accompanied by a Tanzanian police officer and Tom McHugh, is flown to Dar es Salaam.

“He Was Beautiful”

Chapter 1 concentrates on the disappearance of six-year-old Etan Patz in Manhattan in May 1979. It shows how pictures of Patz—taken by his father, a professional photographer, and disseminated around New York City and beyond—inaugurated a new cultural form called the image of endangered childhood. This form foregrounded white childhood innocence and assumed sexual overtones, which shaped the ascendant child safety movement and the news media’s coverage of it. Specifically, observers more readily assigned sexual motives to missing child cases beginning in the late twentieth century. In the Patz case, the racialized and sexualized image of endangered childhood led investigators, activists, and the news media to (wrongly) implicate the North American Man/Boy Love Association in Etan’s abduction. The case thus revealed key fault lines in the LGBTQ and feminist movements, and in late twentieth-century American politics more broadly, while setting the foundation for the child safety regime.