Our Community
of Practice
The PhotovoiceWorldwide community album is growing every day
We are proud to receive many of our clients through word-of-mouth. We appreciate all the friends of PVWW who have dedicated their time to contributing articles to our blog, posting and sharing content on social media, presenting at our conference, leading webinars, and generously sharing their photovoice expertise with others.
The relationships we maintain with members of our network are invaluable to us.
Blog
Our blog posts cover a range of topics, from using photovoice remotely, to the difference between photovoice and photo elicitation, choosing the right camera for photovoice, and using photography for advocacy.
Photovoice Coffee Hour
The Coffee Hour is our latest community of practice initiative and a great way to commune with like-minded individuals interested in or already implementing the photovoice method. The goal is to gather over coffee (or tea!) and share with each other the ways in which we utilize the photovoice steps in our own practices.
Inspired by our popular LinkedIn newsletter, “Stepping into Photovoice” – showcasing reflections and resources on the photovoice method from experts around the globe – the goal here is to explore together the building blocks and best practices of a successful photovoice project.
Upcoming Events
Photovoice Coffee Hour Session 3
As part of our Spring/Summer 2026 Photovoice Coffee Hour series, we are closing out the season with our final gathering on July 23 at 8:00 AM ET (1:00 PM BST). […]
Photovoice Method Conference
Our conferences are continuing education opportunities for scholars and practitioners of the photovoice method.
Our two online photovoice method conferences to date have engaged over 350 photovoice and participatory photography practitioners, scholars, participants, and leaders in keynotes, oral and poster presentations, panels, networking activities, mentoring, and workshops.
The 2024 conference, “Photovoice: Aiming for Impact,” aimed to share, envision, and strengthen the impact of photovoice projects around the world.
A peer-reviewed conference abstracts book supports the work being done by conference presenters around the world to help co-researchers and co-creators tell their stories, advocate for change, and generate impact. Watch recorded keynotes by Robert Strack and Nina Wallerstein.
The inaugural 2022 conference, “Photovoice at 30: Past, Present, Future,” honored this 30-year photovoice method milestone by bringing practitioners, participants, and scholars together in a virtual setting to share their experiences with this powerful and participatory visual method. Watch recorded keynotes by Claudia Mitchell and Tiffany Fairey.
Publications
A Pinch of Awareness: A young cancer patient’s story as told through photovoice by Sanem Cerit (2025)
This book reveals the thoughts, feelings, and experiences of Ali, a 17-year-old Turkish youth diagnosed with cancer. Using a visual participatory method called Photovoice, Ali shares both poignant and mundane details of his daily and social lives, feelings, and sense of identity—after diagnosis, during treatment, and beyond. With this book, Cerit strives to erase the stigma of cancer by encouraging clinicians and others to look beyond a person’s diagnosis and into the heart of who they truly are. Beautiful in its simplicity, yet profound in its message, A Pinch of Awareness is appropriate for anyone dealing with a cancer diagnosis – particularly a young person – as well as their families and the people who treat them.
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Photovoice: Aiming for Impact, the 2024 Virtual Conference, October 16-19, 2024
This abstracts book celebrates the wonderful work that the 2024 photovoice method conference presenters, blog authors, keynote speakers, and others are doing to engage communities and co-researchers in documenting and sharing their stories of challenge, resilience, advocacy, and hope. The book is available as a pdf for free download and printing. Links in the Table of Contents and page numbers in the Author Index help readers reach the content of greatest interest to them. Full-page graphics mark the first page of each new section in the book and support perusal of the content.
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Sports Garb/led: The Case of the Bikini-clad Pentathletes or 2,000-year-old Goals for Girls by Angela Lorenz, with contributions by Stephanie Lloyd and Erin McCarty (2025)
This engaging book documents the author’s efforts to share the historical record about women in sports and the goals that some ancient families had for their girls. QR codes link to free, innovative activity materials, intended for use in after-school and other educational programming with children and youth. Members of Girls Inc. of Greater Lowell and the Community Art Council, Inc, both in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the US, used photovoice to explore their experiences with sports and physical activity before engaging in the activities described. This hardback book will be published in October 2025. Available for free, it will be sent to after-school programs for boys and girls in all 50 US states.
OAESV Photovoice Tookit (2023)
In this Toolkit, you will find information on the benefits of doing a photovoice project, organizing your sessions and tasks, and aiming for impact. There are chapters on planning your project, using photovoice in evaluation, ensuring participant and community safety, taking photographs, writing captions, theming, speaking to power, and promoting inclusion and participation. Each chapter links to the Toolkit outline and to documents provided in the appendices, including handouts, forms, and references. Developed collaboratively by OAESV (the Ohio Alliance to End Sexual Violence) and the PhotovoiceWorldwide team with funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), this Toolkit provides a comprehensive, agreed-upon understanding of photovoice and its processes and tools.
Picturing Financial Security: An Abrazar-UCI Community Credit Photovoice Project (2023).
This small yet powerful booklet shares photos and captions from a photovoice project with SparkPoint clients and financial coaches in Orange County, California. Available for purchase, which covers printing and shipping.
White Papers
White papers are an opportunity for students, researchers, and other photovoice participants to share valuable photovoice experience and knowledge in a format outside of a peer-reviewed journal. Our editors will work with you to make sure your white paper best represents you and your topic.
Vol. 1, Issue 2: Cultivating Engagement on a Virtual Photovoice Project on a Sensitive Topic
This White Paper outlines how a researcher and two mothers of children with medical complexities created a successful virtual photovoice project that became a safe virtual space where “medical mothers” could share their experiences and strategies. The project was born out of a need for medical mothers to navigate the daily challenges they face as primary caregivers and advocates for their children. The White Paper describes their photovoice project process from start to finish, from developing a logo and online identity, to recruitment, engaging with sensitive topics, creating a successful virtual photovoice exhibit, and engaging a virtual audience. The paper concludes with a checklist of lessons learned, to inform decision-making by other virtual photovoice projects and teams. The co-creators’ process of building trust and mutual respect among the core team, with the participating mothers, and with the medical and social services community in San Diego and beyond, is certain to inspire empathetic approaches to photovoice decision-making by future virtual projects that use photovoice to explore sensitive topics.
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Volume 1, Issue 1: The 4E Model of Empowerment through Photovoice
During her Summer 2020 internship at Photovoice Worldwide, Carson Peters conducted a literature review on recent innovations in use of the photovoice method with people with disabilities, in particular cognitive and communication disabilities. Carson’s literature review findings and her training in mathematics and epidemiology inspired her to develop an interdisciplinary model she calls the 4Es of empowerment through photovoice. By re-envisioning photovoice frameworks and theories found in the literature (Moffat & Kohler, 2008; Liebenberg, 2018; Bates, Ardrey, Mphwatiwa, Bertel Squire & Niessen, 2018; Roy, Donaldson, Baker & Kerr, 2014; Lorenz & Kolb, 2020; and Golden & Earp, 2012), Carson provides a lens for students to view the photovoice method and its use, and photovoice project findings and outcomes. Carson’s literature review documents innovations in use of the method to support meaningful photovoice participation by people with cognitive and communication disabilities, an underserved yet important public health population. The 4E model is one way to conceptualize the empowerment process of photovoice. The model is intended to foster connections between quantitative and qualitative research methodologies and their student practitioners, and inspire others to envision and conduct participatory visual research that is person-centered and inclusive.
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If you are interested in working with us to develop a white paper,
Resources
Recorded Webinars
Our free community webinars shine a spotlight on photovoice use around the world. Past topics have included: photovoice with young people, photovoice in the college classroom, and photovoice elements in community-based programming.
Recordings are posted on our YouTube channel.
Photovoice Peer-Reviewed Papers
Over the years, members of our team have collaborated on research that has contributed to understanding of the photovoice method and its use in research, public health, healthcare, and policy.
Explore these examples of open-access, peer-reviewed publications that we have co-authored:
- Connors, JD, Conley, MJ, & Lorenz, LS. (2019). Use of Photovoice to engage stakeholders in planning for patient-centered outcomes research. Research involvement and engagement, 5, 39-39.
- Lorenz, LS and Jon Chilingerian. (2011). Using visual and narrative methods to achieve fair process in clinical care. Journal of Visualized Experiments,48, e2342, doi:10.3791/2342.
- Lorenz, LS and Kolb, B. (2009). Involving the public through participatory visual research methods. Health Expectations, 12, pp 262-274.
