Sarah Pink’s Walking with video. Visual Studies
This week I read Sarah Pink’s Walking with video. Visual Studies. This article explores the research method of walking with research participants while video-recording, to “produce empathetic and sensory embodied (emplaced) understandings of another’s experience” which might be “interpreted empathetically by its audiences.” The author applies this method to her research exploration of Green Lane Community Garden, and her interactions with the primary research participant David, who guided her through the site (garden). What does the particular visual research method offers and what it doesn't offer? The method provides multiple avenues to learn about the research participant. From a phenomenological and ethnographic perspective, by observing the research participant in the garden setting, the researcher is able to embody his experience more meaningfully. More specifically, the researcher explores how the act of walking with the research participant helps to further embody the...