**NEW**
As
of November 2012, the journal Cultural
Anthropology takes submissions of photo essays and will publish one with
each print issue. The first published photo essay can be viewed here: http://production.culanth.org/photo_essays/1-corpus-mining-the-border
Brazil’s Spiritual
Soul – a photo essay
This
was first published in The Latin American
Anthropology Review in 1994. The black and white images that Green presents
were taken over a 13-year period in northeast Brazil and give readers a window
into the lives and daily struggles of people living in the region. It can be
viewed for free at the following link if you are logged into the CWU library
site and download the pdf: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ezp.lib.cwu.edu/doi/10.1525/jlca.1994.6.1.3/abstract
The
Crees of Northern Quebec: A Photographic Essay
The
Cree, and other First Nations, of Quebec, Canada faced major changes to their
culture and ways of making a living in the middle of the last century.
Increased natural resource extraction in the mid-twentieth century, such as
logging and mining, threatened traditional lands and means of survival. In the
1950s, Cree children were placed in boarding schools. They were separated from
their families for nine months of the year and not allowed to speak their
native language. This led to a major disruption of cultural transmission and
conflicts in values between younger and older generations. The Cree were then
further impacted by a major hydropower regime constructed in the 1970s. This
dammed several rivers that drained into James Bay. It modified the landscape, natural
resources, and its reservoirs flooded lands previously reserved for the Cree.
Since the effects of the hydropower project were so widespread, it was difficult
to establish what the baseline for changes to the Cree communities had been
beforehand. This photo essay fills that gap by showing the cultural impacts in
the 1960s, prior to the hydropower project. It also serves an important role in
documenting the culture at that time, since it would soon be even more altered.
These photos may provide a means for Cree to connect with their own history.
UNICEF
Although they may not be as "anthropological" as others (not using anthropological theories or clearly defined methods), UNICEF's photo essays raise awareness of the causes they support. The photos illustrate how images can be more approachable to a general audience than a lengthy article, yet they still have the capacity to transmit a good amount of information very quickly. Examples of photo essays used by UNICEF can be found here:
http://www.unicef.org/photoessays/index-pe.html
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