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The Impact of Photographs on the Researcher: An Ethical Matter for Visual Research
Discussion about visual research ethics predominantly focuses on the effects of visual research methodologies on participants. The effect of visual research methodologies on researchers has received little attention and there has been no sustained investigation into how visual materials generated by the research methodology can impact on the researcher. This chapter draws on a research project where participants created photographs to share their experiences of antidepressant use and wellbeing. It shows how photographs act in particular ways with serious ethical consequences for researchers. The effect that photographs can enact on the researcher introduces an ethical issue that requires further attention and articulation by visual researchers. We discuss some of the implications of considering the action of photographs themselves to ethical discussion about visual research.
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Publication title
Ethics and Visual Research Methods: Theory, Methodology, and PracticeEditors
D Warr, M Guillemin, S Cox and J WaycottPagination
89-100ISBN
978-1-137-54854-2Department/School
School of Social SciencesPublisher
Palgrave MacmillanPlace of publication
United StatesExtent
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Copyright 2016 The Editors and The AuthorsRepository Status
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