ABSTRACT
This chapter examines photography and video as ways of seeing and knowing. Different ways visual literacy shapes the qualitative researcher are explored how the photographic arts can be used to teach researchers how to collect, interpret, and present qualitative research. Arts-based educational research is ripe for further methodological investigation as it pertains to preparing early career researchers. The benefits and difficulties of using a studio pedagogy and photographic arts to advance methodological thinking need additional experimentation. Qualitative researchers who are interested in arts-based educational research have the opportunity to use photographic arts as ways of seeing and knowing. The work of arts-based qualitative research or of the researcher using photography or film is to “overcome the veil of familiarity and self-evidence that surrounds the experience of seeing, and to turn it into a problem for analysis, a mystery to be unraveled”. Photographs have been used as a methodological tool in qualitative research as well as a means of presenting research.
