Visual Anthropology

In this report, I discuss how visual anthropological methods, such as photography, narrated walks, filmmaking and drawing, can be used to explore realms of non-verbal knowledge, perception and experience.

Through auto-ethnographical accounts exploring these methods in early 2022, this report discusses how these techniques can help to reveal our emotional lives, embodied knowledge, imagination and memory.

This report concludes that as the discipline moves forward, developing new & innovative ways of studying human lives, visual anthropological methods have immense potential to understand people’s lived experience. With examples, this paper acknowledges using these methods could have practical implications on policy, although power dynamics & (mis)representation need to be considered when using them.

Grade: 75 (1st).