Workshops

Photovoice

for Community Engagement

Photovoice is an established participatory technique where community members capture images and create photo captions to share individual and community strengths and challenges. The individuals impacted by these challenges examine their experiences through the photographic lens and make connections through group sharing of images and discussing possible solutions to their challenges.

Final images and stories are disseminated locally, nationally, and globally through exhibitions and online platforms. Photovoice has the potential to benefit anyone but is often used with marginalized groups to record their often-overlooked experiences and perspectives on social issues.

Participants in this visual workshop will:

  • Learn a basic history of photography.

  • Understand how camera lenses view the world.

  • Apply basic camera principles and creative practices using the historic and nontoxic cyanotype process.

  • Analyze the cyanotypes created during the workshop using the given prompts.

  • Evaluate their work and the work of their peers in a restful manner through guided group sharing.

  • Create a pop-up exhibition highlighting the participants' final cyanotype.

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Previous Workshops

Ireland, 2024

  • Photovoice and Cyanotype Printing Workshop
    Bark Hill Ukrainian Resettlement Center, Woodsford, Ireland
    Bale, A., and Cox, J. (2024, June 9th)

  • Photovoice and Cyanotype Printing Workshop
    University of Galway, Ireland
    Bale, A., and Cox, J. (2024, June 4th)

  • Photovoice and Cyanotype Printing Workshop
    Youth Work Ireland, Galway, Ireland
    Bale, A., and Cox, J. (2024, May 30th)

Kenya, 2023

  • Photovoice Workshop, Cyanotypes using Medicinal Plants of the Massai
    Oldarpoi Camp, Kenya
    Bale., A., & Cox., J. (2023, Oct 27th)

  • Cyanotypes using Medicinal Plants of the Massai
    Nashulai Cultural Training Center, Kenya
    Bale., A., & Cox., J. (2023, Oct 23rd)

  • Lecture, Photovoice for Cultural Preservation
    Nashulai Cultural Training Center, Kenya 
    Bale., A., & Cox., J. (2023, Oct 19th)

Slovakia, 2023

  • Arrivals: What’s Left Behind, What Lies Ahead. Lecture and Photovoice Workshop
    Ukrainian Community Center in Martin, Slovakia 
    Bale., A., & Cox., J. (2023, Sept 29th)

  • Arrivals: What’s Left Behind, What Lies Ahead. Lecture and Photovoice Workshop
    Lutheran Academy in Martin, Slovakia
    Bale., A., & Cox., J. (2023, Sept 28th)

  • Arrivals: What’s Left Behind, What Lies Ahead. Lecture, Photovoice Workshop
    Secondary Grammar School of J.G. Tajovský in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
    Bale., A., & Cox., J. (2023, Sept 26th)

  • Arrivals: What’s Left Behind, What Lies Ahead. Lecture, Photovoice Workshop
    Ukrainian Community Workshop in Záhrada Center of Independent Culture in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
    Bale., A., & Cox., J. (2023, Sept 25th)

  • Arrivals: What’s Left Behind, What Lies Ahead. Lecture, Photovoice Workshop
    Matej Bel University, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
    Bale., A., & Cox., J. (2023, Sept 22nd)

  • Arrivals: What’s Left Behind, What Lies Ahead. Lecture, Photovoice Workshop
    Academy of the Arts, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
    Bale., A., & Cox., J. (2023, Sept 12th - 13th)

  • Arrivals: What’s Left Behind, What Lies Ahead. Lecture, Photovoice Workshop, Ukrainian Faculty
    Matej Bel University, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia 
    Bale., A., & Cox., J. (2023, May 18th)

  • Arrivals: What’s Left Behind, What Lies Ahead. Lecture, Photovoice Workshop, Ukrainian Students
    Matej Bel University, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia
    Bale., A., & Cox., J. (2023, May 17th) 

  • Arrivals: What’s Left Behind, What Lies Ahead. Lecture, Photovoice Workshop
    Roma Community Center, Povrazník, Slovakia
    Bale., A., & Cox., J. (2023, May 14th - 16th) 

United States, 2023- Present

  • Photovoice Lecture and Cyanotype Printing Workshop with Ukrainian Refugees
    University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
    Cox, J. (2025, December 13th)

  • Photovoice Lectures, Arrivals Film Screening, and Cyanotype Printing Workshop (five sessions)
    University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
    Cox, J. (2025, October 1st – 2nd)

  • Photovoice Lecture and Cyanotype Printing Workshop
    Jewish Family Services, Wilmington, DE.
    Cox, J. (2025, August 22nd)

  • Photovoice Lectures and Cyanotype Printing Workshop (five sessions)
    Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
    Bale, A., and Cox, J. (2025, March 20–27th)

  • Arrivals: What’s Left Behind, What Lies Ahead, Lecture & Photovoice Introduction
    Unionville Middle School, 6th-grade Gifted Class, Kennett Square, PA.
    Cox., J. (2023, Dec 5th)

  • Photovoice Cyanotype Printing Workshop
    Unionville Middle School, 6th-grade Gifted Class, Kennett Square, PA.
    Cox., J. (2023, December)