About
Built from the practice of Photovoice.
Photovoice360 was developed by Dr. Laura Sherwood to bring the complete Photovoice process into one connected environment—grounded in direct experience designing, facilitating, analyzing, and sharing community-based Photovoice projects.
From practice to platform
A tool built for the work, from inside the work.
Transformative Arts Project has run Photovoice projects in real communities: guiding questions, participant photography, reflection, group dialogue, and findings carried to stakeholders and decision-makers.
That practice made clear what a Photovoice project needs to hold together: guiding questions and prompts, participant photographs and reflections, consent and guardian/youth assent records, facilitated dialogue, participatory analysis, and a clear path from community findings to community action.
Photovoice360 was built to bring those parts of the process into one connected environment, so facilitators and organizations running their own Photovoice projects have a structure for the complete method.
Community findings, with every finding traceable to the supporting participant material.
Where the practice comes from
Community projects, not a product idea.
The approach behind Photovoice360 was shaped through arts-based, community-centered Photovoice projects, including work by Transformative Arts Project, Inc., a nonprofit that uses arts-based practice and Photovoice to support community dialogue and emotional well-being.
The through-line of that work is simple: people already know the strengths and concerns of their own community. What is usually missing is a setting where they are asked properly, in their own language, and where what they say reaches the people who can help create change.
Photovoice360 is its own platform and its own brand, built so any trained facilitator or organization can run a project for their own community.
Founder and facilitator
Dr. Laura Sherwood, PhD
Founder & Executive Director, Transformative Arts Project, Inc.
Dr. Laura Sherwood holds a PhD in Human Development, with a background in visual ethnography, arts-based research, organizational development, leadership, and community engagement. She is a Photovoice facilitator and trainer and the Founder and Executive Director of Transformative Arts Project, Inc.
Her work brings together Photovoice methodology, visual literacy, qualitative inquiry, facilitated dialogue, participatory analysis, community engagement, and professional visual dissemination. Across projects, she has worked with youth, community health workers, people in recovery, immigrant and refugee communities, and other groups to document lived experience, identify strengths and needs, and carry community knowledge to people positioned to act.
Photovoice360 grew from that practice. It is an independent platform and professional service ecosystem—not a TAP program and not a replacement for trained facilitation, ethical oversight, or community authority.
Bring Photovoice to your community.
Whether you are running a first community project, training facilitators, or evaluating a program you already lead, the structure is here for it.