ABSTRACT
In this chapter, Dr. Eve Tuck and Deanna Del Vecchio explore the limits and possibilities of photography as a participatory methodology, in the context of a research project with migrant youth focused on post-secondary decision-making. Working from the position that dilemmas are what it is to do research, the authors identify and discuss aspects of the multi-year study that led to deeper analysis: the effects of the new U.S. administration on immigrants’ lives, the ethical issues of representation when sharing youth participants’ photographs, and approaches to using images as data. The chapter includes descriptions of image-based activities that are examples of a desire-based research framework, inspired by Indigenous theories of refusal and resistance.
