ABSTRACT
This chapter explores a series of photo-narratives generated by people who lived and worked within a conflict zone. The chapter addresses a series of photographs and related narratives produced by a team of mobile teacher trainers, who worked within the conflict zone that was Karen State, Southeast Burma. Foreign journalists photographic and filmic representations of conflict in Karen State, there has developed a body of Karen-generated visual representations, often aided by foreign support in the form of materials and training. Karen-generated imagery has primarily developed with the support of organisations such as the Karen Human Rights Group and the Free Burma Rangers (FBR), which have relied on Karen staff to document human rights abuses inside Karen State. Visual methods such as participatory photography can offer communities who experience conflict an opportunity to have some control over the process of how they are represented and how such representations are used.
