'Global Green Photovoice Project'

Welcome and introduction

Ginny (Friends of Nature)
Michael (Monash University/CRME)

Local environmental action

Brief Introductions

1) What's your background (work/study etc)

2) Why did you come?
3) What is your a) Photography, b) Environment
experience (beginner/experienced)?

Project Goals:
Help each other develop creative photography
and storytelling skills

Create environmental themed photo-stories

Share photo-stories online or exhibitions

between each other and with different sites

Photography Theme:
Positive local responses to
environmental/climate change
issues
Local food production
Waste reduction
Energy reduction/generation
Water reduction
Tree planting/conservation
Pollution reduction
Reducing consumption
Etc...

Guidelines for working together

Punctuality

Sharing the speaking role

Listening to each other

Respecting each other

Taking initiative

Why this project?

Common climate change/environment

photos - impacts

Negative images can increase perception of the importance of environmental

problems, but decrease people's motivation for taking action

Common climate change/environment

photos - responses

Often technology only,

without a story behind
them

Project overview:
Global Green Photovoice Project
Components
Participatory photography (photovoice)

Community-level responses to climate change /

environmental problems

Learning and inspiration across 3 global urban sites

Three urban field sites

Melbourne, Australia

Beijing and Hangzhou, China

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Photovoice method

Workshop 1 Introduction, photography and photo-story

Photography sessions

Workshop 2 Selecting photos, developing descriptions,

planning next photo stories
Photography sessions

Workshop 3 Refining final photo stories and planning exhibition

Examples from MARVI project, India 2013-15

Previous participants - India

Group Formation
Form yourself into small groups, each with a
volunteer team leader
Groups should have balance of people with
photography and environment experience

Photography Basics
Taking a good photograph not about a good
camera, instead a good eye!
What is a 'good eye' one that notices subjects,
light, composition
Most of all showing your own unique view

Simplify

Composition: Rule of Thirds

Composition: Rule of Thirds

Composition: Frames

Focus

Camera angles

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Composition: Leading Lines

Composition: Leading Lines

Exposure Compensation

+0.7 EV

0.0 EV

-0.7 EV

Exposure Compensation:
Writing on a White Board

0.0 EV

+ 1. EV

Soft and hard lights

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Lighting: Frontlight

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Lighting: Backlight

Lighting: Sidelight

Contrast

Photo-story
A photo(s) with text showing telling a specific story
- Personal showing how or why someone is
involved in the issue/action
- Text provides context, deeper meanings, can
challenges perceptions
- Can be creative mix of photo, text, drawing,
recombinations
- Storyboarding for development

Example: Livelhoods

Example: Self-portraits

Constructed Images

Text

Photography and Time

Photograph Series

Break
Photography Experiments:

Take a portrait of someone else in your group

without showing their face, but still showing
their character
Take a photograph where the background tells
the story (not the subject at the front)

Ethics and Photography

Autonomy - The right to participate or decline

to participate
Don't harm - Am I creating and using photos in
a manner that will do no harm to persons
appearing in photos?
Knowledge The person in the picture should
know their photo is being taken, what for, and
where it might be shown
Truthfulness- Am I using photos in a context
that fairly represents the real situation in this
photo?

Consent Forms

Project Participation consent form for

participants
Project Participation consent form for
volunteers
Photography Consent form for photograph
subjects (only used for key subjects)

Keeping track of your photographs

Keeping a photo-diary

Recording surface vs depth ideas (iceburg)

Exercise: Prompting Questions

In your groups:
1) Individually write down responses to below questions (5min)
2) Discuss as a group how they can be photographed (10min)
3) Report back to whole group (10min)
Remember it is just discussing ideas there are no wrong
answers!

What are your current understandings of local

environmental issues?
What are your future hopes regarding local environmental
issues?
What how much ability do you have to influence local
environmental issues, and how could this be increased?
What are the relationships between your community and
nature and how are they changing?

Sharing Images
Wechat

Groups

Article

Weibo

Exhibitions

Participant driven

University

School

Online

Part of other events

Collaboration with other sites Hangzhou,

Dhaka, Melbourne

Next steps

Experiment taking photos between now and

11am tomorrow
Record photograph ideas in notebook
Send in your top 5 photographs to your Team
Leader before 11am for printing
Attend Workshop 2 (2-5pm)

Final questions and

continuing group discussion