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Past and Current Visual Work by IVSA Members

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  • Talking with students and local people

    Researching Everyday Lives

    Vincent O'Brien, | Friday, 05 April 2013, | Posted in Projects

    Researching Everyday Lives was produced as part of a multi disciplinary study into health and well being in rural communities in Kazakhstan. 

  • Captain Minnie Webb, first (and only) Captain of the Amazons, First Ladies Fire Brigade, Armidale NSW Australia, demonstrating evacuating a burning building by leaping into the sheet held by citizens, c 1901. Not to be copied without permission.

    The Amazons First Ladies Fire Brigade, Australia

    Merilyn Childs, | Thursday, 04 April 2013, | Posted in Projects

    "What shall we do with our girls" is a personal narrative that tells a little of the journey that emerged as a result of uncovering "The Amazons" and subsequent images. The photographs were generative of other creative works. [http://www.scribd.com/doc/133335562/What-Shall-We-Do-With-Our-Girls]. As a result of the photographs, I collaborated with costumier Gracie Matthews to reproduce the operational and dress uniforms of The Amazons. These were then paraded by contemporary female fire fighters as part of my key note address to the Australasian Women in Fire Fighting Conference, Sydney Australia, June 2006.

  • People Apart: 1950s Cape Town Revisited. Photographs by Bryan Heseltine

    People Apart: 1950s Cape Town Revisited. Photographs by Bryan Heseltine

    Darren Newbury, | Thursday, 28 March 2013, | Posted in Published Work

    People Apart: 1950s Cape Town Revisited. Photographs by Bryan Heseltine offers a rich and fascinating insight into South Africa at the very beginning of the apartheid era through Bryan Heseltine’s previously unpublished photography of the early 1950s.

  • Flags

    Representing Ourselves

    Vincent O'Brien/ Cumbria Multicultural Womens Network, | Thursday, 28 February 2013, | Posted in Exhibits

    This film tells how women from different countries are working together on visual projects to create support the development of a multicultural network in a rural area of England.

  • Exhibiting identity through public performance: Upasana at the Lowry Theatre, Salford.

    Who Am I?

    Vincent O'Brien, | Thursday, 28 February 2013, | Posted in Exhibits

    A collaborative film about the nature of self and social identity amongst South Indian Migrants living in Manchester

  • The tools of the trade!

    Scratching the Surface

    Vincent O'Brien, | Thursday, 28 February 2013, | Posted in Exhibits

    Graffiti artists at Eurocultured 2007 in Manchester talk about the origins, inspirations and motivations for their work.

    First shown at the International Visual Sociology Association Conference, New York University, July 2007.

  • Members of the production group and other villagers watch the first edit of their film. Later they added voice over, titles and credits.

    Visible Voices Changing Lives

    Vincent O'Brien, | Thursday, 28 February 2013, | Posted in Exhibits

    This film tells the story of the origins of Visible Voice as a small project working with remote village communities in Kyrgyzstan Central Asia. The film provides an insight into life in two remote communities in Kyrgyzstan and includes extracts from films made by villagers.

  • The Sage Handbook of Visual Research Methods

    The Sage Handbook of Visual Research Methods

    Eric Margolis and Luc Pauwels (editors), | Wednesday, 27 February 2013, | Posted in Published Work

    This 42 chapter volume represents the state of the art in visual research. It provides an introduction to the field for a variety of visual researchers: scholars and graduate students in art, sociology, anthropology, communication, education, cultural studies, women's studies, ethnic studies, global studies and related social science and humanities disciplines.