ABSTRACT
This chapter explains visual and digitised images as artefacts of material culture, and explore the consequences for visual research in education, shaping both analysis and knowledge production and generating fresh insights within the project, about young people with ongoing health conditions. critical visual research has understood field work images and associated digitised formats as socially produced representations. In our completed project, with archived thousands of images and hours of video tapes and interview data, one's are left with further opportunities to think through the methodological issues and meanings of the images generated by young people and the matters of social change and educational exclusions. The focus on participatory research and visual data production used in the Keeping Connected project forms part of author's enduring interest and engagement with the critique of traditional ethnography. Visual researchers need to consider how thinking visually will enhance their understanding, and to decide what images will be generated over the life of a research project.
