Photovoice plan and SHOWeD facilitation worksheet

Use Part 1 for advance planning and Part 2 for facilitation on the day.

When to use this worksheet and what completion involves Fictional completed example

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Photovoice plan and SHOWeD facilitation worksheet

Method: Photovoice

Use Part 1 for advance planning and Part 2 for facilitation on the day.

Part 1: implementation plan

Agree with stakeholders before starting

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Project and evaluation connection: Improve access routes
Photography theme derived from questions: Places supporting or hindering access
Selection policy and numbers: Start with 4 participants using different routes (fictional)
Photography period, session count and schedule: 1 week photography and 1 dialogue (fictional)
Equipment: camera / smartphone, etc.: Loan devices and preferred alternative recording
Ethics: privacy, consent and safety: No people or residence names; publication optional per image

Reason for this entry: Offer drawings or oral accounts for people unable to photograph.

Project and evaluation connection

Photography theme derived from questions

Selection policy and numbers

Photography period, session count and schedule

Equipment: camera / smartphone, etc.

Ethics: privacy, consent and safety

Writing tips and explanation for this section

About this section

Agree with stakeholders before starting

Offer drawings or oral accounts for people unable to photograph.

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Writing tips

Follow each field’s heading to record the program name, focus, period, and other details. Leave undecided matters clearly marked as unresolved.

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Ethics and safety before orientation

Check before explanation and consent

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☑ Checked: Plan to explain purpose/use and obtain written consent
☑ Checked: Can explain respect for others' privacy
☑ Checked: Have responses for dangerous subjects or locations
☑ Checked: Check publication scope for final exhibitions or reports beforehand

Reason for this entry: Assume explanation plans exist; obtain actual participation and publication consent separately.

Plan to explain purpose/use and obtain written consent
Can explain respect for others' privacy
Have responses for dangerous subjects or locations
Check publication scope for final exhibitions or reports beforehand

Writing tips and explanation for this section

About this section

Check before explanation and consent

Assume explanation plans exist; obtain actual participation and publication consent separately.

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Writing tips

Read each item and check those you have confirmed. Do not use the fictional example’s checkbox states as findings about your own program.

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Part 2: SHOWeD dialogue record

1 row per photo; facilitator and recorder complete together

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Participant code	Photo number	S: what does it show?	H: what is happening?	O: relationship to our lives	W: why does this problem exist?	D: what can we do?
P01	Photo01	Pavement step	Sometimes detour into the road	Hesitation about attending	Participant's view that no pavement bypass exists	Check safe alternatives and consult managers

Reason for this entry: Record causal inferences as the photographer's view.

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Participant code	Photo number	S: what does it show?	H: what is happening?	O: relationship to our lives	W: why does this problem exist?	D: what can we do?

Writing tips and explanation for this section

About this section

1 row per photo; facilitator and recorder complete together

Record causal inferences as the photographer's view.

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Writing tips

Keep the information in each row aligned. Scroll wide tables horizontally to see every column.

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Post-session themes

Record while dialogue is fresh and confirm with participants as needed

Completed example for this section (fictional)

This fictional example is for explanation. Adapt it to your own program. Your entries will not change.

Organize step barriers and resting places supporting access as two themes with participants. Do not publish identifiable homes; explain through approximate-location diagrams.

Reason for this entry: Examine publication risks with participants.

Writing tips and explanation for this section

About this section

Record while dialogue is fresh and confirm with participants as needed

Examine publication risks with participants.

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Writing tips

Use the example as a reference and record what you have established about your own program. Distinguish assumptions and unchecked matters from confirmed facts.

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Before writing, check when to use the worksheet and what completion involves

Photovoice plan and SHOWeD facilitation worksheet is a worksheet for applying Photovoice in meetings or individual work. For the overall duration of the method, use “Illustrative planning durations, not common standards: 6–12 weeks from orientation to presentation, including sessions” as a reference, adjusting for scale and resources. Fill in what you know provisionally and leave unresolved matters as questions to check next.

When this worksheet is useful

Evaluate programs or communities through less-heard perspectives, including women, children, older people or migrants
Conduct participatory evaluation with empowerment among its purposes
Understand quality of life, subjective experience or local-environment changes invisible in quantitative indicators

Participants and preparation

Facilitator and affected participants. Set numbers from perspectives, dialogue time and equipment/access support.

Bring the materials used for decisions, existing data, and differing stakeholder views to help complete the worksheet.

Suggested order

1. Part 1: implementation planAgree with stakeholders before starting
2. Ethics and safety before orientationCheck before explanation and consent
3. Part 2: SHOWeD dialogue record1 row per photo; facilitator and recorder complete together
4. Post-session themesRecord while dialogue is fresh and confirm with participants as needed

Signs the worksheet is ready for review

Photographs by participant
SHOWeD dialogue records and transcripts
Thematic analysis report

Cautions for review

Interesting images can distract from SHOWeD records and analysis. Images elicit data; accounts are essential.
Explain to reviewers that the purpose is revealing unheard voices, not statistical representation.
Always confirm photographed people's consent before presentation to avoid privacy violations.

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Fictional example; not actual results

A fictional illustration: a wheelchair user photographs their route to a consultation facility.

Part 1: implementation plan

Project and evaluation connection: Improve access routes
Photography theme derived from questions: Places supporting or hindering access
Selection policy and numbers: Start with 4 participants using different routes (fictional)
Photography period, session count and schedule: 1 week photography and 1 dialogue (fictional)
Equipment: camera / smartphone, etc.: Loan devices and preferred alternative recording
Ethics: privacy, consent and safety: No people or residence names; publication optional per image

Reason for this entry: Offer drawings or oral accounts for people unable to photograph.

Ethics and safety before orientation

☑ Checked: Plan to explain purpose/use and obtain written consent
☑ Checked: Can explain respect for others' privacy
☑ Checked: Have responses for dangerous subjects or locations
☑ Checked: Check publication scope for final exhibitions or reports beforehand

Reason for this entry: Assume explanation plans exist; obtain actual participation and publication consent separately.

Part 2: SHOWeD dialogue record

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Participant code	Photo number	S: what does it show?	H: what is happening?	O: relationship to our lives	W: why does this problem exist?	D: what can we do?
P01	Photo01	Pavement step	Sometimes detour into the road	Hesitation about attending	Participant's view that no pavement bypass exists	Check safe alternatives and consult managers

Reason for this entry: Record causal inferences as the photographer's view.

Post-session themes

Organize step barriers and resting places supporting access as two themes with participants. Do not publish identifiable homes; explain through approximate-location diagrams.

Reason for this entry: Examine publication risks with participants.

Common errors in judgment

Have evaluators alone classify photographs

How to revise: Ask photographers why they chose them and organize interpretations jointly

Reason: Avoid replacing experiences with outsiders' views.

Treat photography participation consent as publication consent

How to revise: Confirm photos and captions for each intended use

Reason: Photography and publication have different impacts.

Editorial and checking information

Content updated: 2026-09-13Source checked: 2026-09-13 (includes AI cross-checking)No documented human reviewIncludes fictional examplesEditorial policy and scope of checking Cite this page Report a correction

References and checked sections

Photovoice
BetterEvaluation
Section consulted
Photovoice opening definition
How it relates to the text
Center participants' experiences and interpretations in photo dialogue.
Source checked: 2026-09-13 (includes AI cross-checking)

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2026-09-13 — Checked sources for definitions and conditions and added fictional examples, judgment rationales and completed entries for every field. Revised unsupported historical or uptake claims. Reviewed procedures and cautions, adjusting fixed counts, thresholds and institutional generalizations. Preserved field positions, types and counts while revising fixed conditions and thresholds.