Encounters with ‘Found’ Photographs: Analytical Potentials for Sociology, Visual Anthropology and Ethnography

<p dir="ltr">In this paper, I discuss my personal experiences with visual research methods to examine how I have discovered and utilised</p><p dir="ltr">‘found’ photographs as part of my creative research practice. Found photographs, these ‘traces of what has happened’, provide</p><p dir="ltr">valuable material and analytical potential to creatively explore themes and issues while presenting the data in different ways. I use</p><p dir="ltr">found photographs as the starting point for photo analysis, storytelling, and poetic inquiry to emphasise the significance of these</p><p dir="ltr">‘photographs as relics’ for visual anthropology, sociology, and ethnography.</p><p dir="ltr"><br></p><p dir="ltr"><br></p>