About
Built from the practice of Photovoice.
Photovoice360 was built to bring the complete Photovoice process into one connected environment, by people who run these projects in real communities.
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. Sherwood holds a PhD in Human Development, with work and background in visual ethnography and arts-based research. She is a Photovoice facilitator and trainer.
Her work centers community dialogue and visual documentation, and the practice of carrying participant photography and reflection into community findings and community action.
Photovoice360 emerged from that sustained practice. Running Photovoice projects in real communities made clear how much of the method was being held together by paper, folders, and goodwill, and how much a more complete digital environment could protect: participant interpretation, consent, and the thread back from every finding to the participant material that supports it.
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.