{"id":1203,"date":"2014-01-14T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T17:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/2014\/01\/14\/our-photovoice-journey-an-act-of-exhausting-bravery\/"},"modified":"2022-05-01T05:55:29","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T05:55:29","slug":"our-photovoice-journey-an-act-of-exhausting-bravery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/our-photovoice-journey-an-act-of-exhausting-bravery\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Photovoice journey: An act of exhausting bravery"},"content":{"rendered":"
Our paper brings you more than just \u201clessons learned,\u201d instead, we show you how fears are deeply embedded in the political statements that our photographs attempt to visualize. \u00a0These fears, however, are interlaced by hope, conviction, strength and the belief that our voices, as U.S. Latinas, are needed to frame those political statements.<\/p>\n
Initially, the North Portland HEAL Photovoice project hoped to use photographs to understand the everyday lives of Latino immigrant families in North Portland, however, we ran with the project and used photographs to bring forth our voices (which are either submerged or obscured by institutional practices that claim to speak for us). In short, we wanted to make a political statement about U.S. Latinas as creators of knowledge.<\/p>\n