Guest Blogs

02/05/2018 Past PhotoVoice trainee Ruth Davey writes for us on photography and mindfulness. She describes how the two can complement one another and support people living with mental health challenges.  In September 2014, photography started to take on a whole...

06/04/2018 FotoDocument Director, Nina Emett writes for us on the Marilyn Stafford Reportage Award, supporting female documentary photographers. Inspired by Marilyn Stafford's prolific photographic career, the award will grant the overall winner £2,000 and will have their work exhibited in...

Supported by her PhotoVoice training and the PhotoVoice manual, PhD candidate Elaine Flores undertook her own participatory photography project funded by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine “Promoting resilience and mental well-being among communities affected by El Niño-related floods...

28/02/2018  In celebration of International Women’s Day 2018 arts social enterprise, FotoDocument, will launch a photography exhibition at Oxo Tower Gallery about their most recent project Empowering Women Entrepreneurs Worldwide. Photography exhibition 28 February – 11 March, 11am – 6pm daily, Oxo...

21/02/2018 Deborah Strauss and Vitali Krivich share with us their participatory photography project at the Holot detention centre in Israel, working directly with refugees before they face deportation. In a few months Sudanese and Eritrean refugee seekers currently living in Israel will...

08/02/2017 Attila Paksi, writes for PhotoVoice on his participatory photography project in Southern Africa. Indigenous communities share what happiness or well-being means to them. Happiness, or in a broader term well-being, can be defined as “the experience of joy and...

Kristy Davies, Projects Assistant at be artsy, an NGO supporting communities through the arts, writes for PhotoVoice on their participatory photography project in Nepal. Through their own photographs, girls and women share their thoughts on menstruation and the tradition of...

09/01/2018 Dr Susie Donnelly writes for PhotoVoice on her participatory photography project supporting people living with a chronic illness. These images aim to ensure that the patient voice is heard in the health care system.  You do not see the...

Dr Maria Quinlan, Sociologist at University College Dublin, writes for us on using photovoice to explore the complexities of mental health, and to challenge people to ‘Look Beyond’ the often negative labels associated with mental health difficulty. Maria is a PhotoVoice...

Photographer Laurence Aëgerter aims to support people living with dementia through a new body of work. Commissioned by the Festival Images Nestlé Prize , Photographic Treatment © is an innovative addition to current dementia care.  A component of photography that has long been...