Trauma-Informed Visual Practice
Applied intentionally, a trauma-informed approach is an invisible, dynamic undercurrent. It is felt and activated by a mutual process of engagement. Through this process of slowly unburdening the nervous system, the participant sees anew, an offering of new language and perceptiveness. To apply this approach is to listen deeply, and craft an personalized approach that sustains a voice that has found its home in a body felt anew. A voice that was always there but perhaps retracted, suppressed, ignored.
A Trauma-informed practice is a buoyant structure centering the inherent potential of complex trauma survivors. The method creates space for a reset. It doesn’t announce itself, it’s not about branding. This work is not about upholding the scaffolding of trauma as a “category.” We do this work to transgress implicit bias, and change the way stories are experienced and understood, not merely told. We do this work to eradicate the prevalent micro acts of violence that photography depends on to “shoot” and “capture” the Pain of Others.
A Trauma-informed practice is a buoyant structure centering the inherent potential of complex trauma survivors. The method creates space for a reset. It doesn’t announce itself, it’s not about branding. This work is not about upholding the scaffolding of trauma as a “category.” We do this work to transgress implicit bias, and change the way stories are experienced and understood, not merely told. We do this work to eradicate the prevalent micro acts of violence that photography depends on to “shoot” and “capture” the Pain of Others.