« Tu ne prends pas les mêmes photos que nous ! »: La photographie de terrain au prisme des regards professionnels

Aline Boeuf; Laurence Claurepierre Buratti; Cornelia Hummel

doi:10.36950/sjsca.2025.32.11621

Contributions in Audio-Visual Anthropology

Vol. 32 No. 2 (2025): Arts Grappling With the Local and the Global: What are the Political Issues in the Public Sphere?

“You Don’t Take the Same Pictures as Us!”: Field Photography through the Prism of Professional Gazes

Aline Boeuf^▸^▾
Laurence Claurepierre Buratti^▸^▾
Cornelia Hummel^▸^▾

Submitted: October 1, 2024
Published: 2026-05-20

Abstract

The integration—both unexpected and welcome—of an occupational therapist into a research team of sociologists working with visual methods provided an opportunity to examine the gaze each brought to the field through the camera lens. This article presents the dialogue that developed between the occupational therapist and the doctoral student in sociology during working sessions in which they viewed each other’s photos. This dialogue initially took the form of a mutual questioning, with each person questioning what the other had intended to show with the given shot, and then evolved towards an alignment of gazes built collectively around the purposes of the research.

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Keywords

ageing at home
assistive devices
visual methods
photography

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How to Cite

Boeuf, Aline, Laurence Claurepierre Buratti, and Cornelia Hummel. 2026. “‘You Don’t Take the Same Pictures As Us!’: Field Photography through the Prism of Professional Gazes”. Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology 32 (2): 88-98. https://doi.org/10.36950/sjsca.2025.32.11621.

[1] Akrich, Madeleine. 2006. « La description des objets techniques ». Dans Sociologie de la traduction, édité par Madeleine Akrich, Michel Callon et Bruno Latour, 159-78. Paris : Presses des Mines.

[2] Grasseni, Cristina. 2022. « More than visual : The apprenticeship of skilled visions ». Ethos 53 (1) : 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.12372.

[3] Kimber, Leah R. 2023. « Reversed Photo-Elicitation ». Dans International Organizations and Research Methods, édité par Fanny Badache, Leah R. Kimber, et Lucile Maertens, 56-57, Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press. https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11685289.

[4] Meyer, Michaël, et Christian Papinot. 2017. « Le travail des images dans la démarche de recherche. Analyse réflexive et compréhension de l’objet ». Images du travail, travail des images 3 [en ligne] https://doi.org/10.4000/itti.1053.

[5] Pink, Sarah, Kerstin Leder Mackley, Roxana Morosanu, Val Mitchell, et Tracy Bhamra. 2017. Making Homes. Ethnography and Design. London, New York : Bloomsbury.