ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the use of tourists’ own photographs in a field interview situation for collecting empirical information, and with situating this approach methodologically. The method of analysis of the empirical data lies outside the scope of this chapter. In the following I will first discuss the theoretical challenges related to doing interviews with tourists in a field situation based on photographs taken by the tourists. I discuss seeing practices in relation to embodied practices and how tourists negotiate extraordinary experiences by taking ‘ordinary’ photographs. Next, I discuss some practical challenges and how these influenced the choice of method. Following that, I describe and comment on the practicalities of interviewing in the field. Finally, the chapter closes with some concluding
reflections. The method for collecting empirical material was part of a study with the objectives of analysing signifying practices of several actors, including canoeing tourists, and exploring how canoe tourism becomes spatialised (Brandin, 2003).
