‘Giving voice’ to marginalised individuals or communities is a commonly stated aim of studies employing visual research methods, particularly studies on the experiences of ill people. This points to the significance of voice as a political concept in social justice endeavours, calling for profound engagement with the ontological and epistemological assumptions around voice in visual methodologies. Drawing on Mazzei and Jackson’s work on voice in qualitative inquiry, and Azoulay’s understanding of photography as an infinite series of encounters, I interrogate the concept of voice in participant-led visual methodologies. To do so, I engage with my encounters with two research participants as part of a larger study on cancer survivorship conducted in Australia. These participants had cancers that are in lay and epidemiological knowledges linked with lifestyle; something that both researcher and participants grappled with and that affected their research, photographic and narrative practice. In these encounters I trace what voice can do, outlining a conceptual approach to voice integrating more-than-human agential capacities that traverse temporal, spatial and social boundaries. I argue for shifting emphasis from ‘giving voice’ to ‘thinking with voice,’ concurrently situating research employing participant-led visual methods within the tenets of relational research more broadly.

为边缘化的个人或社区“发声”是采用视觉研究方法的研究的一个普遍目标，尤其是对病人经历的研究。这指出了声音作为社会正义努力中的政治概念的重要性，呼吁在视觉方法论中深入参与围绕声音的本体论和认识论假设。借鉴 Mazzei 和 Jackson 在定性探究中关于声音的工作，以及 Azoulay 将摄影理解为一系列无限的遭遇，我在参与者主导的视觉方法中质疑声音的概念。为此，我与两名研究参与者进行了接触，作为在澳大利亚进行的一项更大规模的癌症幸存者研究的一部分。这些参与者患有与生活方式相关的非专业和流行病学知识的癌症；研究人员和参与者都在努力解决并影响他们的研究、摄影和叙事实践的事情。在这些遭遇中，我追溯了声音可以做什么，概述了一种概念性的方法来整合跨越时间、空间和社会边界的超越人类的代理能力。我主张将重点从“发出声音”转移到“用声音思考”，同时将采用参与者主导的视觉方法的研究更广泛地置于关系研究的原则中。概述了一种概念性的方法来整合跨越时间、空间和社会边界的超越人类的代理能力。我主张将重点从“发出声音”转移到“用声音思考”，同时将采用参与者主导的视觉方法的研究更广泛地置于关系研究的原则中。概述了一种概念性的方法来整合跨越时间、空间和社会边界的超越人类的代理能力。我主张将重点从“发出声音”转移到“用声音思考”，同时将采用参与者主导的视觉方法的研究更广泛地置于关系研究的原则中。