Visual methodologies employed within qualitative research projects can add deep insight and reflexivity to interview or observational data and are an ideal means to facilitate storytelling, reminiscence and encourage socialisation. This paper draws upon research using photography as a dual-purpose data collection and data dissemination tool within a residential aged care environment and explores the role they can play in resident socialisation and wellbeing in institutionalised settings. Using multiple lens-based methods, the research examined how photographs can act as artefacts of homeless and the ways this can contribute to the construction of identity and well-being post-transition to care. By exploring how photographs demarcate spaces and invoke memory, the work addresses how photographs can assist with the transition from the resident’s home environment to the aged care space. Whilst the dominant method employed was Photo Elicitation, collaborative and socially engaged photographic practices were also employed using participatory methods to create new photographic memories, which were then displayed and discussed publicly. This paper will report on and illustrate the effectiveness of photographic methods within institutionalised spaces, the ways in which it can give agency to the residents and the role of the researcher in visual research practices.

定性研究项目中采用的视觉方法可以为访谈或观察数据增加深刻的洞察力和反思性，是促进讲故事、回忆和鼓励社交的理想手段。本文利用在住宅老年护理环境中使用摄影作为双重目的数据收集和数据传播工具的研究，探讨它们在机构化环境中在居民社会化和福祉中可以发挥的作用。该研究使用多种基于镜头的方法，研究了照片如何充当无家可归者的人工制品，以及这有助于在过渡到护理后建立身份和幸福感的方式。通过探索照片如何划分空间和唤起记忆，该作品探讨了照片如何帮助居民从家庭环境过渡到老年护理空间。虽然采用的主要方法是照片启发，但也使用参与式方法采用协作和社会参与的摄影实践来创造新的摄影记忆，然后公开展示和讨论。本文将报告并说明摄影方法在制度化空间中的有效性，它可以赋予居民代理权的方式以及研究人员在视觉研究实践中的作用。然后公开展示和讨论。本文将报告并说明摄影方法在制度化空间中的有效性，它可以赋予居民代理权的方式以及研究人员在视觉研究实践中的作用。然后公开展示和讨论。本文将报告并说明摄影方法在制度化空间中的有效性，它可以赋予居民代理权的方式以及研究人员在视觉研究实践中的作用。