'Global Green Photovoice Project'

Workshop 2
Creating Photo-stories

Reflecting on first photography

Share briefly in groups about how it was to

develop a photostory

Think of the surface vs depth ideas (iceburg)

Documentation?

Principles of reading photographs

Subject: their appearance and gaze?
Other elements:their arrangement, where the
eye is drawn to?
Framing: How does space in the photograph
have an effect? What might lie outside the frame?
Relationship with audience: is there a specific
audience? Is it supporting their existing views, or
challenging them?
Is there a story? What might happen before or
after the photograph is taken? What is the surface
stories, what are the depth stories?

Examples

Example - framing

Refining first round photographs

1) Participants choose favourite 2 (or photo
series) from their photos, write down draft
ideas for descriptions. (15)
2) Participants each introduce the photos to
their group, explaining the ideas behind
them. Group gives feedback for each
person who records notes. (25)
3) Participants write down improved
captions for these images on blank paper
which the image is stuck onto.
4) Each group shares a photo-story with
the whole class

Break!

Informal photo-sharing between groups

You may wish to work together with someone
over the same idea

Exhibition idea development

Participant driven

Competition

University/School/Workplace

Online

Part of other existing events?

Online sharing collaboration with other sites

Hangzhou, Dhaka, Melbourne

Sharing Images during the week

Wechat

Groups

Article

Weibo
Voting?
Other online methods

Prompting Questions
Remember the questions are prompts only you dont have to
used them!

What are your current understandings of local

environmental issues?

What are your future hopes regarding local environmental

issues?

What how much ability do you have to influence local

environmental issues, and how could this be increased?

What are the relationships between your community and

nature and how are they changing?

Planning second round photos

1) Participants think of new ideas for photostories individually, including how they
could be shared. How could these work
together with the previous ideas? (5-10)
2) Participants each introduce their new
ideas to their group. Group gives feedback
for each person who records notes. (15)
3) Each group shares a photo-story with
the whole class

Next steps

Experiment making photo-stories between now

and 11am next Friday

Post photo-stories to group as you complete

Record photo story ideas in notebook

Send your top 5-10 photographs to your Team

Leader before 11am next Friday for printing
Attend Workshop 3 next Sat 22 nd (9-3pm)

Final questions and

continuing group discussion

Photo-story
A photo(s) with text showing telling a specific story
- Personal showing how or why someone is
involved in the issue/action
- Text provides context, deeper meanings, can
challenges perceptions
- Can be creative mix of photo, text, drawing,
recombinations
- Storyboarding for development