“Photovoice offers participants… a powerful universal language to express their ideas and represent their realities to the rest of us.”
-Carol Bellamy, Executive Director, UNICEF
What is Photovoice?
Photovoice is a participatory process and photographic technique used in public health, community development, and education to identify issues and act for social change. Participants take photos, write narratives, and work together to select the pictures that best capture their collective wisdom. Participants use photographs to tell their stories and may conduct outreach to raise awareness and encourage action.
Photovoice Goals are: To enable people to record and reflect their community’s strengths and problems
To promote dialogue about important issues
To communicate with decision-makers and act for social change
The LymeVoice PhotoVoice Project:
This project will work with participants to voice their thoughts on what Chronic Lyme Disease means to them in their community and for themselves. All people are welcome to join this project and work with us online through this website if they choose. We will meet with participants on April 17th 2013 for our first workshop. We will then spend the time between our next workshop taking pictures in the field of our issue and brainstorming ways that our project can create positive change for those in the Lyme community. Our second meeting we will be writing brief narratives and sharing our photographs and then deciding the way that we would like to use our images to promote change.