Open AccessPhotography as a Visual Literacy Tool
Author(s) -
Sandra Liliana Caicedo Barreto
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
colombian applied linguistics journal/colombian applied linguistics journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2248-7085
pISSN - 0123-4641
DOI - 10.14483/22487085.10514
Subject(s) - photography , reading (process) , literacy , inclusion (mineral) , sociology , visual literacy , process (computing) , visual arts , key (lock) , pedagogy , mathematics education , psychology , computer science , art , social science , linguistics , philosophy , computer security , operating system
This article is an attempt to show some theoretical issues founded on how visual literacy processescome about through a photography project. The framework explained is based on Wendy Ewald’s literacythrough photography study (LTP), and on Freire’s reading conception which stare at literacy as a processfor social inclusion. Further a literature review, I provide some practical aspects based on a visual literacyexperience carried out in a private school in Bogotá. Likewise, I describe some key moments of the visualliteracy process that can be developed by an image’s viewer. All this process is based on the socio culturalperspective.