ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests a way that a perspective that asks who connects to digital photography, where and in what ways can help us to understand how complex digital photographic technologies impact on our ways of living together. It draws folklore studies analysis of cultural enactments and speech events to gain insights into vernacular photography and where emergent dimensions of multi-semiotic modes of meaning can be taken into account. Reflexivity is central to photography as a cultural performance and is critical to understanding how these practices relate to the everyday. Academic discourses of surveillance still primarily address rhetorically oriented macro-perspectives, yet, in the experiential and ontological realm of the 'mediatized everyday', surveillance is just as likely to be horizontal and continuous, at the level of everyday use. The 'digital refugee', like the vernacular photographer, is not a unified category, but is part of the variance we find as we extend our gaze across this expanding landscape of photographic practices.
