A path between images and narratives: methodological reflections from research in urban peripheries

The narrative proposed here retrieves interlocution experiences in socially vulnerable locations in Porto Alegre/RS, Brazil, to discuss the use of images in research regarding belonging in contexts of urban periphery. Upon acknowledging the intensive use of imagery appeals nowadays, we seek to problematize the contributions of dynamics of narrativization engendered by the production of photographs by subjects of the dialogue in the field. In this work, other techniques are articulated, and the place culturally reserved for photography as an intervener in the interlocutions is not undistinguished. For that, the elaborations of José de Souza Martins and Paul Ricoeur were the main reflective references. Thus, the next step is to ponder the results of the incursions from the repercussions of the effect of verisimilitude and the deference associated with the photographic elements and related artefacts; as well as from the contrast of statements that, unlike narratives of linear intention, were instigated by the icons interpreted in the images.