ABSTRACT
In the early 1990s, Caroline C. Wang and Mary Ann Burris coined the term photo novella, a research methodology that later came to be known as photovoice. Procedurally, photovoice can be distilled down to eight steps: identification, invitation, education, documentation, narration, ideation, presentation, and confirmation. This chapter is focused on the ways in which photography has been used within inquiry over time. Since the advent of the camera and the still image, photography and inquiry have been intertwined. Photographs and photography are important aspects of society, culture, and personal life. Bush proposed a machine called the memex, one that could house information and act like an extension of our minds. Since the advent of the Internet, memory has experienced digitization, multimediatization, and Googlization. The merger of cell phones and cameras has exacerbated the digitization of photography. Historically, photographs used within research projects have been taken from the perspective of the researcher, the inquirer, or the observer.
