Online PhotoVoice Training

The online course provides a comprehensive introduction to understanding the key principles around  participatory photography, including designing your own project.

The course is suitable for a wide range of participants interested in social change and photography or digital media including: photographers, visual practitioners, voluntary sector and NGO staff, campaigners, statutory sector workers, researchers and academics.

Standard Rate – £783

A limited number of training subsidies are available for the online course upon submission of an eligibility form, and will be considered on an individual basis. Please complete this form selecting the option ‘I would like to find out about training courses’ for further information. Please note completion of this form does not guarantee a subsidised place will be provided.

PhotoVoice can also provide a range of institutional training courses. For more information, visit Training Courses.

Terms and Conditions for attending PhotoVoice’s training are available here.

Is this course practical?
Yes. It combines a range of activities and sessions about the practicalities of running a participatory photography activity, including workshop design, equipment, session planning and others.

Is this course academic?
In parts, yes. We scrutinise the thinking around participatory engagement, considering its ethics and role within a range of sectors. But you don’t need to have any academic background to engage. For academics wishing to attend, the courses tend to talk about the practicalities of running a participatory photography course rather than the academic theory behind participatory practices.

I’ve completed the PhotoVoice training course. Can I describe myself as a trained PhotoVoice facilitator?
We’re afraid not. We reserve that for members of the core PhotoVoice team, who all contribute to the development of the methodology and its application. You can, however state that you’ve completed the relevant training course. This is to ensure that any subsequent projects you may deliver or work on are not mistaken as being run by PhotoVoice.

Can I copy and share all the training materials?
The materials used are to help inform your own activity, and can’t be reproduced or shared without permission.

After I attend the voice, can I call my project a PhotoVoice project?
We’re afraid not. The word PhotoVoice (particularly with a capital P and V) is protected for projects run by us as an organisation, and trademarked. Some people use photovoice to describe the methodology, but this can cause confusion between us and other organisations, so we encourage people to describe their projects as ‘participatory photography’ projects.

Will the course cover how to fund my project?
Given the international range of attendees at our courses, we cannot provide specific advice about how to fund individual projects, but may be able to help in considering some of the ways in which you might describe or develop your project to funders.

Do you offer discounts for training places?
We don’t currently offer any discounts on our training courses. We were forced to end the schemes we had in operation as they were being exploited by individuals claiming discounted places to which they weren’t eligible.

We’ve been exploring ways of verifying eligibility, but such schemes need to be externally managed and come with a cost, which means to implement them we’d need to increase the prices of all training places, which would negate any discounts we might be able to offer.

Any increases in the price of our training courses has been below inflation over the last few years, and we’re committed to trying to offer courses at an accessible price point for attendees. We appreciate that this might still be out of reach in many situations, and offer phased payments via Klarna as a payment option.

Please visit PhotoVoice’s main site for recent evaluation and feedback of our online training courses.