Qualitative Survey in Psychology and Collective Health: Experiments with Photographic Resource

The use of images is a resource that is widely used in qualitative surveys in human and health sciences. In Psychology, visual narratives have a strategic function since they help overcoming cultural barriers between surveyor/subject and producing culturally sensitive knowledge. One aims at presenting the photographic essay strategy and the findings from analyses that used visual narratives as methodological instrument with waste scavenging children, adolescents under chemical addition treatment, elders, deaf adolescents, health professionals, students, professors, and administrative assistants. We note that photography stirs up discourses and it is presented as privileged source of information from the analyzed reality and of the participants' worldview. The image-discourse articulation shows itself powerful in accessing subjects' different dimensions and it is an intervention strategy in many issues.

Psychology; Collective health; Qualitative survey; Photography