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Visual Narratives is a platform that was created in 2020, which serves as a repository of photographs of social science research using visual methods in any of its stages. To date, the project has had two calls for proposals and has 30 photographic projects, showing the diverse contexts of different countries.

The aim of the platform is to highlight the importance of visual methodologies such as photovoice, maps, collage, photo elicitation, drawings among others, and also to familiarise the visual as a research method both in the Global South and the Global North, but with the Southern Cone as a base. In this sense, our intention is to promote a space for researchers who base their work on photography, at any stage of their careers (both students and researchers) and their studies. Our intention is to highlight that from the global south we can carry out and disseminate research with great success and without frontiers of knowledge.

We focus on disseminating academia to a diverse and mass audience, in order to understand the new relationships, dynamics and challenges facing photography as a methodology. In this way, the project seeks to address a broad spectrum of themes proposed by the authors of the photographs. In this way, the project proposes a more interdisciplinary view of the social sciences.
The photographs presented here are the product of the first and second call for Visual Narratives that address diverse themes from memory, social movements, urbanity, migrations, identities, to how the pandemic period affects our relationship with the other and spaces. In this gesture, something that was inductively interesting was that there were certain themes that emerged and shaped the organisation of this book. Thus, the book is composed of four broad themes that interrelate the narratives behind those photographs.