The Favelas Through the Lenses of Photographers

Photographers from community and mainstream media organisations bring the everyday of favela communities to the attention of Rio de Janeiro's society from different perspectives. While mainstream photojournalists mainly report on favelas from outside to inside, denouncing wrongdoings and human rights abuses, community photographers do it from the opposite direction, from inside to outside, presenting images of the everyday life of favela communities. This paper takes an ethnographic and discursive approach to comparing these two categories of photographers to ask how their different practices can yield benefits for the people living in marginalised communities. Furthermore, by adapting Foucault and Bourdieu's theories, this study examines photographers’ habitus so as to determine how cultural capital and economic capital that they possess shape their subjectivity and, as such, the fields of community and mainstream photojournalism. This study has no intention of creating polarised distinctions between community and mainstream photojournalism. Instead, the research aims, through the investigation of the working practices, identities, and discourses of photographers from community and mainstream media organisations, to identify the activities and limitations of both community and mainstream in order to build an understanding about how the media ecology works best within both

Art · Epistemology · Ethnography · Everyday life · Habitus · Mainstream · Media studies · Newspaper · Photography · Photojournalism · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Subjectivity · Visual arts · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Public Spaces through Art

• Playing the Mainstream Game. A Language-Game Analysis of “Mainstream” as a Possible Boundary Object in Journalism Studies

  Open Access•Steen Steensen, Tine Ustad Figenschou et al.•Digital Journalism•2023

  Incluir item

• Contested Visualities

  Open Access•Alice Baroni•Visual Imagery and Human Rights…•2018

  Incluir item

• Surveying research on favelas and the media

  Helton Levy•Popular Communication•2020

  Incluir item

• Favelas e as pós-vidas da cidade escrava

  Open Access•Brodwyn M Fischer•Topoi (Rio de Janeiro•2024

  Incluir item

• The Discovery of Grounded Theory

  Barney G Glaser, Anselm L Strauss•Discovery of Grounded Theory•2017

  Incluir item