The Visual Sociology Research Group was born in 2007 to bring the concept of public sociology to life and follow the interests of many of its founders in using visual language to disseminate the outcomes of social research.
Since then, the Visual sociology Research Group has been using the camera and the video camera as tools to research social reality, producing many documentaries, exhibitions, and graphic novels, but first and foremost it has started to use still and moving images as part of its methodological approach to social research in order to develop its participatory nature. (Read more)
Since its creation in 2010, Laboratorio di Sociologia Visuale has developed multiple visual research practices, producing sociological documentaries and organizing photographic exhibitions but also carrying out experimental productions and developing new formats such as ethnographic fictions, ethno-graphic novels and sociological art exhibits. Below, you will find its latest productions. To see all the visual productions, please visit the Research Practices page… (View all)
Riski is a short documentary based on the ethnographic
work carried out by Luca Queirolo Palmas in Ceuta, Nador
and Melilla, in 2018.
A documentary on solidarity at the French-Italian border, based
on the ethnographic research work carried on by Luca Giliberti
An ethno-fiction project based on the ethnographic work of
Luisa Stagi and Luca Queirolo Palmas on young people’s
expectations and dreams in the post-arab spring Tunisia.
A view from the inside of an Italian state prison. Inmates talk
about their views, wishes and forms of resistance.
A co-production of Laboratorio di Sociologia Visuale & Centro Studi
Medì on the migrant integration process in a district
in the Old Town of Genoa.
A view on suburbs as spaces for cultural production and the role
of music as a global lifestyle trend.
A sociological investigation documentary through an imaginary and
internal journey to and from home. Luis Yépez's life in Genoa:
Ecuadorian migrant, boxer, and baker.
A path of visual research on the themes of the body, gender and
sexual identity that starts from issues such as homophobia and
transphobia, to get to deal with some fundamental rights that
seem increasingly threatened and questioned today.
Donna Faber is a visual sociology research project carried out
by Emanuela Abbatecola. Through interviews and portraits she
explored stereotypes and gender expectations about work.
Almost entirely shot in Ecuador, Transportes is a travel diary
and an overview of a country whose main source of income are
the money transfer from Ecuadorians living abroad.
A short ethnographic documentary on the Calais makeshift camp.
A documentary on educational models and practices in the schools
of Genoa (Italy).
An ethnofiction by Jose Gonzalez Morandi on the forms of resistance
and counter-narratives of immigrants from South-America in Spain.
The stories of nine young people, sons and daughters of migrants,
who live in nine different European countries.
A public-art project strirring a collective reflection and debate
on the issues of migration, rescue at sea and humanitarian help
to migrants.
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The border between Mexico and the USA is 3200 kilometers long,
one third of which is covered by a wall. The icon of the
"frontier" today is a a scar of contemporary society on which
darkness and light, violence and humanity co-exist.
An (ethno)graphic novel overlapping stories and reality
about the border.
TEU, is a project developed by the ON Association in collaboration
with Laboratorio di Sociologia Visuale, whose aim was the
exploration of transformations affecting the urban territory as
a consequence of its logistical connections. Invited artists: Danilo Correale and
Riccardo Benassi.