Fotografia socjologiczna – w kierunku reportażu dialogicznego
Sociological Photography: Toward Dialogical Reportage

Summary/Abstract: Almost 10 years of cooperation with a photographer who accompanies me in field research prompts me to share my reflections and methodological comments resulting from the experience of building relationships between a researcher, an informant (informants), and a photographer. Following Piotr Sztompka, I would call this experience the process of shaping the sociological visual imagination. In general, dialogic reportage is about experiencing the world of others and about learning to discover another person as he/she sees himself/herself in the surrounding reality. In the article, I discuss the issues of dialog in visual research, the principles of good practice in sociological photography, and the idea of dialog reportage, illustrating the text with photographs from my own field research carried out as part of projects such as: ‘The identity of the post-immigrant community based on the example of Kosznajderia,’ ‘Everyday life of the inhabitants of the Cekcyn commune in the Tuchola Forest,’ ‘The impact of archaeological research on the integration of local communities under the project 1000 years of Upper Lusatia,’ and ‘Biographical sketches of the companions of the Volunteer Fire Brigades in the Golub-Dobrzyń commune.’ The author of all the photos is Dariusz Bareya, an artist photographer from Bydgoszcz.

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