The In/Visibility of School Closure

• In Event: Roundtable Session 90
  In Roundtable Session: Visualizing Spaces of Possibility Within Schooling

Abstract

In this paper, I examine how the photo-essay, is a powerful form of photo-educational inquiry with potential for arts-based educational research that is socially responsible. The aim is to illustrate how a photo essay on the topic of school closure can be regarded as generative and pedagogical. By examining the role that “aftermath photography” plays in contemporary art as well as my own personal art practice, I analyze how photo-educational research has the potential to depict a narrative that is representative of a collective memory through metaphor and rhetoric.

Author

• Natalie Leblanc, The University of British Columbia