I really want to run a photovoice project with students in Santa Ana high schools. This lends itself really well to the creation of a photo essay in collaboration with the students, whose transcribed accounts of the photographs would accompany them. These photo essays might be focused on the infrastructure of a particular school, what a student encounters on their daily travels to and from schools, or a hazard that they're familiar with in their neighborhood, among other things.
We have at least two photo essays that collect Tweets focused on a specific theme (College Students and Internet) and one that highlights data visualizations focused on specific survey questions (Awareness of Energy Assistance Programs). There are a total of four photo essays, two were students projects and two were experiments. I’m not convinced that photo essays are the best mechanism for curating our work.
I am planning to eventually create a photo essay that tracks the development of Austin’s contemporary racial geography through time, from early paintings, maps, city plans, etc. to contemporary data visualizations.
As I continue to gather more photos and images, I think one photo essay could be on current photos of Urequio’s natural wells, which are all named and had a use (most have dried up, some have been blocked up, and one or two are being restored). Another idea is for a photo essay representing irrigation of the agricultural fields, and another for the infrastructure for running water. Together, I think these can represent the multiplicity of Urequio’s water infrastructure histories.