Introduction - Situating visual research

Now, more than ever before, ethnographers are using visual and digital images and technologies to research and represent the cultures, lives and experiences of other people. Theoretical and technological innovations have made the visual both acceptable and accessible to anthropologists and this has created a contemporary context where new ethnographic media, methodologies and practices are emerging. Working images explores these uses of the visual in ethnography. Through a series of theoretically informed recent case studies and fieldwork experiences its contributors describe how photography, video, drawing and hypermedia might be engaged in the processes through which ethnographic knowledge is created and represented.