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As photography becomes more prevalent in ethnographic research, scholars should more seriously consider the photo essay as a medium for sharing their work. In this Position Piece, we present guidelines for the creation of ethnographic photo essays for medical anthropology that do not simply combine image and text, but create a balance that allows words to provide context for the image(s) and images to reinforce or challenge the text. We feel there are three basic elements every photo essay must consider that are informed by the theory and practice of visual anthropology. While a solid background in visual anthropology is not necessary to produce a successful photo essay, being mindful of these three elements in relation to your work will help you develop a photo essay that combines the best of what both media offer your audience.

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The first Cultural Anthropology issue of 2020 features five original research articles, as well as our first edition of a new feature, Colloquy . Colloquy collections are intended to take the form of a conversation in which different vantage points are explored and debated on a shared theme or concept. “Gestures of Care and Recognition” brings together a series of essays by Lauren Cubellis, Lisa Stevenson, Ken MacLeish, Michele Lancione, and Zoë Wool. In these provocative discussions, each of the authors grapples with the theoretical uncertainty and representational challenges in the ethnographic encounter with care.

The research essays begin with Pablo Jaramillo’s rich exploration of the remains of gold mining in a Colombian town. Jaramillo demonstrates with often gripping ethnographic evidence the ways that small-scale miners work to craft a viable and (re)productive future out of the remnants of industrial mining in the region. Amy Zhang considers an experimental project intended to transform the black soldier fly into an ally in Chinese waste management efforts. Her exploration of the logics of this biocapitalist effort reveals the ideological limitations of ideas of “nature” independent of the human labor that is entangled in the work of generating “green” value. As cynicism seems to have saturated so many political projects on a global scale, Girish Daswani offers a comparison of distinct activist responses to the abiding theme of corruption in Ghanaian politics. His insights detail a prevailing concern with the cynicism of elites, but he also shows how artists and performers imagine their creative efforts to be an example of the way that political change may yet be possible. Dimitrios Theodossopoulos draws reflexively on the “split-self” of ethnographic authorship to reveal a double discourse, between idealism and rationalism, at the center of Greek leftists’ debates over the efficacy of humanitarian solidarity amidst protracted austerity. His playful use of graphic ethnography to caricature these positions reminds us of the role of ethnographic conversation in the formation of ethnographic narrative. Multiculturalism has been subject to widespread critique in contemporary anthropology, but Seçil Dağtaș offers a new perspective on its possibilities. Her discussion of a multireligious musical ensemble, the Civilizations Choir of Antakya, demonstrates the value of exploring attempts to represent minority ethnoreligious communities as sites where multiculturalism is now challenged by xenophobic, so-called “populist” authoritarianism in nations like Turkey, and so many others.

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The Photo-Essay is Dead, Long Live the Photo-Essay is both the name of a workshop and title of a rapid-prototype publication. The workshop was organized by the Ethnographic Terminalia Collective for the 2016 meetings of the American Anthropological Association in Minneapolis Minnesota, held on November 17, 2016. The workshop featured presentations from international contemporary art photographers, photo-journalists and anthropologists and resulted in a collaboratively-produced rapid prototype ‘zine of the photo-essays curated for presentation in the workshop and photo-essays by workshop participants. The zine cover was designed and the book was printed by Sam Gould of Beyond Repair , in Minneapolis as a limited edition and distributed at a launch event 36 hours later.

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Before the workshop, presenters were asked to submit creatively designed and critically engaged page-spreads featuring photo-essays and discussions they would present during the workshop. Participants in the workshop were encouraged to print photographs from their own photo-essay works in-progress and bring them to work with, throughout the day. We documented the event and the spreads and notes and included a selection of them in the zine publication. Sam Gould of Beyond Repair created the cover.

While photographs have been a component of anthropological practice since its earliest formation as a discipline, there has been little sustained and critical engagement with modes of presentation and publication in the context of visual anthropology. As a result there has to date been little clarity around the definition of a photo-essay especially within the context of anthropology. This reality is precisely what interested us. Our academic conventions for sharing photographs have been cemented around a limited number of typically black and white images in a journal article or monograph.

We also believe that still photographs and their entanglements with other media are on the cusp of finding new importance in anthropology in the form of the photo-essay, in particular as the serial nature of photography is being tested out within digital infrastructures on the Internet. We were interested in a workshop that could be a testing ground, and so we encouraged making and working on the photo-essay by the workshop participants: To disrupt, to re-define, and to work within and beyond the photographic frame. ET provided simple supplies such as scissors, sharpies, post-its, and invited participants to use these to explore new modes presentation, to include new formats, to create a record of questions and comments that arose over the course of the day.

Building on Ethnographic Terminalia’s art-anthropology experiments at off-site locations, we decided to return to the American Anthropological Association annual meetings site in 2016 to re-examine the photo-essay within anthropological, photographic and publishing communities within the format of a workshop. ‘The Photo-Essay is Dead, Long Live the Photo-Essay!’ emulates our recent workshop and rapid-publication projects ( Vancouver 2015 ). To achieve this within the framework of the AAA meetings, we issued an open call and invited participants to actively consider how experimentations at the intersection of art and anthropology might function as prototypes for thinking about the future of the photographic image in anthropology.

The workshop was organized around presentations by international contemporary art photographers, photo-journalists and anthropologists, in three parts. Part One began with provacteurs Stephanie Sadre-Orafai and Jordan Tate (University of Cincinnati). Part Two featured Lee Douglas (New York University), Kate Schneider (Ontario College of Art and Design), and Teresa Montoya (New York University). Part Three featured Aubrey Graham (Centre for Humanities Research, South Africa) Donna DeCesare (University of Texas, Austin) and Jeffrey Schonberg (San Francisco State University).

After the workshop, Ethnographic Terminalia and guest editor Gabriela Aceves-Sepulvéda completed the design, layout, and printing of the zine. Then we sent it to Sam Gould at Beyond Repair in Minneapolis for printing and binding within a 36-hour time frame. These limited edition print copies were made available on Saturday, November 19, 2016 at the Society for Visual Anthropology-supported Ethnographic Terminalia Lounge and Book Launch in the AAA Meeting venue.

‘The Photo-Essay is Dead, Long Live the Photo-Essay!’ was organized by the Ethnographic Terminalia Collective for the 2016 meetings of the American Anthropological Organization in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This rapid-prototype publication, which was printed and launched within 36 hours of the conclusion of its partner workshop, and this website, is the product of the creative energy and enthusiasm of many people and organizations.

We would like to express our gratitude to all of the workshop participants for joining us in the experimental creation of this publication. In particular, we acknowledge the workshop presenters for sharing their inspiring work in the workshop and in the pages that follow: Stephanie Sadre-Orafai, Jordan Tate, Jeffrey Schonberg, Donna DeCesare, Kate Schneider, Lee Douglas, Teresa Montoya, and Aubrey Graham.

Our gratitude to Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda, who led the print design and layout of the zine, and to Hannah Turner who assisted the rapid-production of the zine throughout the workshop and into the night. We are also very grateful to have had the opportunity to work with Sam Gould at Minneapolis’ Beyond Repair , who designed and printed our cover, and facilitated the rapid printing of the publication. Thank you to Reese Muntean and Aynur Kadir for documenting the workshop. 

We extend our sincere thanks to the American Anthropological Association (AAA), in particular Ushma J. Suvarnakar and Samuel Martinez, for inviting this experimental event to the 2016 meetings. We are ever grateful to our funding partners for making this work possible: The AAA, The Society for Visual Anthropology, and the Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council.

This website was designed by Kate Hennessy, Aynur Kadir, and Kyle McIntosh at Popgun Media.

Photographs are by Reese Muntean and Kate Hennessy.

The video was produced by Aynur Kadir and Kate Hennessy with the Ethnographic Terminalia Collective.

The Ethnographic Terminalia Collective is: Stephanie Takaragawa, Trudi Lynn Smith, Fiona P. McDonald, Kate Hennessy, and Craig Campbell.

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  1. The Photo-Essay's Bark

    The photo-essay allows authors to delve into the paradoxes brough about by the complex mnemonic processes that take place in efforts to clarify and denounce state-led violence. They speak to us of the material presences as well as the gaps that continue to drive the search for the forcibly disappeared, depicting a novel counter-forensic regard ...

  2. PDF The Photo Essay

    The Photo Essay. Patrick Sutherland University of the Arts London. Email: [email protected]. Abstract: This invited essay reflects upon the use of the photo essay within documentary photography. In particular it compares Righteous Dopefiend, the much-lauded anthropological text by Philippe Bourgois with photographs by Jeff Schonberg ...

  3. The Photo Essay

    Abstract. This invited essay reflects upon the use of the photo essay within documentary photography. In particular, it compares Righteous Dopefiend, the much-lauded anthropological text by Philippe Bourgois with photographs by Jeff Schonberg, to work by photographers exploring similar subject matter. It aims to tease out some of the essential ...

  4. Turning around the camera: Self-portraits of an anthropologist on

    Abstract. This photo essay explores the practice of digital self-portraiture as an epistemological practice. Drawing on the well-established role of photography within the anthropological canon, this photo essay looks with a new criticality on the act of self-portraiture by an anthropologist as both performative praxis and ethnographic tool.

  5. [PDF] The Photo Essay

    This invited essay reflects upon the use of the photo essay within documentary photography. In particular it compares Righteous Dopefiend, the much-lauded anthropological text by Philippe Bourgois with photographs by Jeff Schonberg, to work by photographers exploring similar subject matter. It aims to tease out some of the essential elements of the photo essay as well as the connections ...

  6. Writing with Light: Editorial Introduction

    Writing with Light: Looking Back, Moving Forward. Cultural Anthropology's commitment to innovations in digital publishing enabled and encouraged Michelle Stewart and Vivian Choi to create a platform for peer-reviewed digital anthropological photo-essays, something that no other anthropological journal was doing at the time.The initiative featured open reviews to provide models for engaging ...

  7. Writing with Light

    Writing with Light. Cultural Anthropology began publishing photo essays on its website in 2012, amid wide-ranging discussions about alternative forms of critical ethnographic expression. In 2016, this section was relaunched as a collaboration with the Society for Visual Anthropology known as Writing with Light.

  8. Cultural Anthropology

    Cultural Anthropology journal content published since 2014 is freely available to ... This essay questions the practices and objects that define anthropologists' ... Pink 2001; De León 2013; Canals 2017), I will draw from photo-ethno-graphic fieldwork conducted between 2015 and 2018 in a French banlieue (work-ing-class suburb) to describe ...

  9. (PDF) The Photo Essay

    The Photo Essay. 2016, Visual Anthropology Review. The aim of this text is to explore the possibilities for the study of the photographic image in the scope of Visual Anthropology. It begins by presenting the predominance of the Visual in contemporary society and the current anthropological interest in the questions of visibility.

  10. "Writing with Light Photo Essays

    Writing with Light is an initiative to bolster the place of the photo-essay—and, by extension, formal experimentation—within international anthropological scholarship. As a collaboration between two journals published by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Cultural Anthropology and Visual Anthropology Review, Writing with Light ...

  11. Cultural Anthropology

    Cultural Anthropology publishes ethnographic writing informed by a wide array of theoretical perspectives, innovative in form and content, and focused on both traditional and emerging topics. It also welcomes essays concerned with ethnographic methods and research design in historical perspective, and with ways cultural analysis can address broader public audiences and interests.

  12. CALL FOR DIGITAL PHOTO ESSAYS

    Journal for the Anthropology of North America; ... Cultural Anthropology. Volume 28, Issue 1 p. iii-iii. Announcement. CALL FOR DIGITAL PHOTO ESSAYS. MICHELLE STEWART, MICHELLE STEWART. University of Regina. Search for more papers by this author. VIVIAN CHOI, VIVIAN CHOI. Cornell University.

  13. Thinking through the Photo Essay: Observations for Medical Anthropology

    As photography becomes more prevalent in ethnographic research, scholars should more seriously consider the photo essay as a medium for sharing their work. In this Position Piece, we present guidelines for the creation of ethnographic photo essays for medical anthropology that do not simply combine image and text, but create a balance that allows words to provide context for the image(s) and ...

  14. Corpus: Mining the Border

    Editors' Introduction. In 2010, a conversation was ignited over incorporating photo essays into the new Cultural Anthropology website. The conversation, which started about a photo essay project, quickly transformed into a discussion about disciplinary boundaries, peer review, and new directions in anthropology.

  15. Visual Ethnography

    VISUAL ETHNOGRAPHY is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to researches on 1) the production and use of images and audio-visual media in the socio-cultural practices; 2) digital cultures; 3) contemporary art and anthropology; 4) anthropology of art; 5) vision and gaze; 6) senses and culture; 7) objects, design, architecture and anthropology; 8) bodies and places in an anthropological perspective ...

  16. Cultural Anthropology

    Cultural Anthropology publishes ethnographic writing informed by a wide array of theoretical perspectives, innovative in form and content, and focused on both traditional and emerging topics. It also welcomes essays concerned with theoretical issues, with ethnographic methods and research design in historical perspective, and with ways cultural analysis can address broader public audiences and ...

  17. Vol. 35 No. 1 (2020)

    Vol. 35 No. 1 (2020) The first Cultural Anthropology issue of 2020 features five original research articles, as well as our first edition of a new feature, Colloquy. Colloquy collections are intended to take the form of a conversation in which different vantage points are explored and debated on a shared theme or concept.

  18. Ethnographic Terminalia

    The Photo-Essay is Dead, Long Live the Photo-Essay is both the name of a workshop and title of a rapid-prototype publication.The workshop was organized by the Ethnographic Terminalia Collective for the 2016 meetings of the American Anthropological Association in Minneapolis Minnesota, held on November 17, 2016. The workshop featured presentations from international contemporary art ...

  19. Photo Essay Submissions

    Download "Photo Essay Best Practices" cool-anthropology-photo-essays-best-practices.pdf - Downloaded 34 times - 732 KB. ... Photo Essays collections of photos with captions written by one of our cool anthropologists. Cool Anthropology Newsletter. We send our ideas, research, events and the intriguing things we find around the (inter ...

  20. Ethnographic Photography

    (Avec traduction en français) Camilo Leon-Quijano's "Why do 'Good' Pictures Matter in Anthropology?" explores the ethnographic use of photography and visual representation in anthropology. This post highlights his theoretical contribution to the field of visual anthropology and ethnographic methods, as well as his fieldsite engagement in Sarcelles, a French banlieue (a suburban ...

  21. Museum of Modern-Day Slavery: A Photo Essay

    ABSTRACT. A photo essay from the Museum of Modern-Day Slavery in Houston, Texas, with photographs of rooms, entrances, and storage spaces in brothels following raids, including artifacts of the trade found at the scenes are documented. Photographs include brothels, bars, and strip clubs where Korean women and Mexican women were exploited.

  22. (PDF) Four examples of the photo essay

    Four examples of the photo essay Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg's celebrated book Righteous Dopefiend (2009) is an intimate, accessible and reflexive ethnography of drug addiction and homelessness as experienced by a small, marginalised group of middle-aged heroin and crack users in San Francisco.

  23. Visual Ethnography Journal Cover Page from Photo Essay

    Visual Ethnography Journal Cover Page from Photo Essay. July 2022. DOI: 10.12835/ve2019.1-0141. Authors: Anil Gopi. University of Hyderabad.